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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students

Songs of Innocence: Introduction

William Blake·1757–1827
Lines:20Movement:Romanticism
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. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!"So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read."So he vanish'd from my sight; And I pluck'd a 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.