 | Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...happiness than mortals enjoy. The picture of Innocence is introduced with the following sweet verses. " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer— So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...lesson? The Piper and the Child. On a cloud I saw a child, — And he laughing said to me, — Z. " Pipe a song about a lamb," — So I piped with merry...that song again", — So I piped — he wept to hear. 3. " Drop thy pipe, — thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer." So I sung the same again, While... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...place here — from my own copy of it thrown by in a portfolio some twenty years ago. — " Passing down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee,...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer ;' So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear, " ' Piper, sit thee down, and write In a book,... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ?— " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping soiigs of pleasant glee. On a cloud I saw a child, And he,...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again I' So I piped ; he wept to hear. ' '... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud, I saw a child, And he, laughiog, said to me, " Pipe a song about a lamb," So I piped...wept to hear. " Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing the songs of happy cheer," Next take the Laughing Song. When the green woods laugh with the voice of... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb 1' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " '... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...Innocence " he gives us the fable or story telling the reason of his writing. He is in the green fields: " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a lamb ;' 80 I piped with merry cheer." And then he tells us that the child was so delighted he asked to hear... | |
 | Literature - 1867 - 746 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I* So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " '... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1859 - 288 pages
...valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tomePipe a song about a lamb ; So I piped with merry cheer....Piper, pipe that song again— So I piped— he wept to bear Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing Ihy songs of happy cheer — So I sung the same again, While... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...old As the beginning of the heavens and earth ! WORDSWOKTH. [INTRODUCTION TO " SONGS OF INNOCENCE."] PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer ;" So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that... | |
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Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear. 
