It always begins with a song…
“Songs Of Innocence: Introduction”
by William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Piping down the valleys wild
Piping songs of pleasant glee
On a cloud I saw a child.
And he laughing said to me.
So I piped with merry cheer,
Piper, pipe that song again—
So I piped, he wept to hear. Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe
Sing thy songs of happy cheer,
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 vanished from my sight
And I pluck’d 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.
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