 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.  Modern English: Elementary lessons in English - Page 216by Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 220 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 292 pages
...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...happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ! " So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thou down, and write In a book, that... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - 1871 - 244 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 694 pages
...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...down and write In a book, that all may read. " So he vanish'd from my sight ; And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 pages
...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...down and write In a book, that all may read." So he vanish'd from my sight ; And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water... | |
 | Little folk - 1873 - 282 pages
...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...that song again," So I piped — he wept to hear. William Blake. SAST THE KING. HIS crown is golden hair, measuring an inch ; His sceptre chubby arms,... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 pages
...since, as sweet a piper has piped to a child a song about a lamb : — "'Pipe a song about a lamb.' £S> I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped : he wept to hear." Poor Pan ! He mourned for Echo, the merry mountain-nymph, tricksy as a jackdaw and talkative as a magpie,... | |
 | William Blake - 1874 - 194 pages
...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...and write In a book that all may read — " So he vanish'd from my sight ; And I pluck'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Child life - 1874 - 300 pages
...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...happy pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer ! " So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thou down, and write In a book, that... | |
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