“Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,O…”

“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.”

— William Blake

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Title: Wikiquote: William Blake
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

Introduction, st. 1–2

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Blake, William. (n.d.). Wikiquote: William Blake. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake

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