 | 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,... | |
 | Child life - 1874 - 300 pages
...the German of Chamisso. PICTURES, FANCIES, AND MEMOEIES. PIOTUEES, FANCIES, AND MEMORIES. THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1874 - 390 pages
...of new-born lambs announces that Spring is coming. See p. 3. 1 In unison — in harmony. THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
 | 1906 - 730 pages
...Songs of Innocence. The key-note of that little book of music is struck by the introductory poem :— Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, , > On a cloud I saw a child. "Pipe a song about a lamb ! " So I piped with merry cheer. " Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...; And love them I ever shall, But thou art all to me. Introduction to 'Songs of Innocence' (1789). Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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 Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 136 pages
...sat down to a hearty breakfast. I shall tell you more of my tour some other time. THE PIPER. IPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child ; ^^5. And he, laughing, said to me, sal '*\ " Pipe a song about a lamb ! " So I piped with merry cheer.... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 242 pages
...traveller in the dark, Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, Twinkle, little star. — 5 — THE PIPER. PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...God SAMUEL TATI.OB COLEHIPQI. PART II. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping gongs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said to me • " Pipe a song about a Iamb." So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped ; he wept to hear. •'... | |
 | Thomas Murby (publisher.) - 1879 - 264 pages
...money coined. com.mod'-l-ty, article of commerce. in-trln'-sic, actnal; true. THE CHILD AND THE PIPER. PIPING down the ' valleys wild, Piping songs of 'pleasant...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer;•' So I snng the same again, . While he wept with joy to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write In a book,... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...Happiest OLXXII The Noble Nature CLXXIII The Rainbow Cfnliinn's (SarlanJr from ifat §cs.t THE PIPER Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...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... | |
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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; 
