 Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.  Skirmishes and Sketches - Page 370by Gail Hamilton - 1865 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1847 - 788 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and twite, In a book that all may read.' Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...pijied— he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper,...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." In a higher and better spirit he wrought with his pencil. But then he imagined himself under spiritual... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...piped — he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer— So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper,...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Another song, called " The Chimney Sweeper," is rude enough truly, but yet not without pathos. " When... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...and write In a book that all may read;" So he vanished from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed; 5. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may join to hear. LESSON 15. '61-lowed, went after, walked behind. 'a-tient-ly, contentedly, to suffer... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...cheer 1" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " ' Piper, sit thee down and write " And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear,...jungle, leaping into the fine drawing-rooms of Cavendish bquare, would hardly create more commotion than such a poem as "The Tiger," charging in among Epistles... | |
 | Scotland - 1847 - 818 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that all may read.' Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...So he vanish" cl from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed, "And I made a rural pen, And I stain" d the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear." Who is this child? Is this child nothing more than the mere fabrication of a wildly fanciful brain... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that all may read.' Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...!' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " ' Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe j Sing thy songs of happy cheer I' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy...hear." A native of the jungle, leaping into the fine drawing-room t of Cavendish Square, would hardly create more commotion than such a poem as "The Tiger,"... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1859 - 288 pages
...piped— he wept to bear Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing Ihy songs of happy cheer — So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper,...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." In a higher and better spirit he wrought with his pencil. But then he imagined himself under spiritual... | |
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