English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
William Blake
354. Reeds of Innocence
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Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
So I piped with merry cheer.
‘Piper, pipe that song again;’
So I piped: he wept to hear.
Sing thy songs of happy cheer!’
So I sung the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
In a book that all may read.’
So he vanish’d from my sight;
And I pluck’d a hollow reed,
And I stain’d the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.