Songs of Innocence/Introduction

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 chear.

Piper pipe that song again

So I piped, he wept to hear.

Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe

Sing thy songs of happy chear

So I sung 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