Introduction to the Songs of Innocence William Blake
"Introduction to the Songs of Innocence" by William Blake is a poetic work exploring themes of childhood, purity, and the contrast between innocence and experience. The lyrics reflect a vision of a world filled with joy and simplicity. The piece is not a song in the traditional sense, but rather a foundational text in Romantic literature. #Poetry
Release Year: 1789
Main Themes: Innocence, childhood, nature
Lyrical Meaning: Celebrates the purity of youth and the beauty of the natural world.
Cultural Impact: Influenced Romantic poets and artists, highlighting the importance of innocence in human experience.
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.
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.
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