 Piper, sit thee 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 clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 94edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1847 - 788 pages
...Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 pages
...— So he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." In a higher and better spirit he wrought with his pencil. But then he imagined himself under spiritual... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 374 pages
...— So he vanished from my sight : And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Another song, called " The Chimney Sweeper," is rude enough truly, but yet not without pathos. " When... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1833 - 150 pages
...So he vanished from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed; 5. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may join to hear. LESSON 15. '61-lowed, went after, walked behind. 'a-tient-ly, contentedly, to suffer... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 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,...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." doubtful. Yet there are few books of which I love to turn over the leaves, more assiduously and carefully,... | |
 | 740 pages
...he wept with joy to hear. " ' Piper, sit thee down and write " And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." A native of the jungle, leaping into the fine drawing-rooms of Cavendish bquare, would hardly create... | |
 | 1867 - 738 pages
...from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, " And I made a rural pen, And I stained th« water clew, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." A native of the jungle, leaping into the fine drawing-rooms of Cavendish Square, would hardly create... | |
 | 1846 - 292 pages
...my sight ; And 1 plucked a hollow real, And I made a rural pen, And 1 stained lite water clear, Anil I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear*' In a higher and better spirit he wrought with his pencil. But then he imagined himself under spiritual... | |
 | 1847 - 818 pages
...Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
 | 1882 - 492 pages
...So he vanish" cl from my sight, And I pluck'da 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." Who is this child? Is this child nothing more than the mere fabrication of a wildly fanciful brain... | |
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