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Songs of Innocence and Experience. (1794)
by William Blake.

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.

The Shepherd

How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot!
From the morn to the evening he strays;
He shall follow his sheep all the day
And his tongue shall be filled with praise.

For he hears the lambs innocent call,
And he hears the ewes tender reply.
He is watchful......

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Approximate Word Count: 4900
Approximate Pages: 20 (250 words per double-spaced page)