Laughing Song
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; when the meadows laugh with lively green,
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; when the meadows laugh with lively green,
I dreamt a dream
What can it mean
And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild:
Witless woe was ne'er beguiled
He who binds to himself a
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it
Lives in eternity's sun rise
Merry, merry sparrow
Under leaves so green A happy blossom Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom
Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does
Silently, invisibly
I told my love,
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said "I've a pretty rose tree," And I passed the sweet flower o'er
Then I went to my pretty rose tree, To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned ...
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Earth raised up her head From the darkness dread and drear,
Her light fled,
Stony, dread,
And her locks covered with grey despair
My mother groaned, my father wept,
Into the dangerous world I leapt;
Helpless, naked, piping loud,
Like a fiend hid in a cloud
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