Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read. Elson Grammar School Readers - Page 41by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911Full view - About this book
| England - 1847 - 788 pages
...Then he vanished from my sight ; And I plucked 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." Such was the form under which the muse may be said to have visited and inspired Andersen. He ought... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1833 - 292 pages
...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 plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water... | |
| Allan Cunningham - Artists - 1830 - 374 pages
...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 plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...first improve, And theatres arc still the scenes of Love.— AVi Piper, sit thee clown and write ID a book that all may read — So he vanish'd from my sight : And I plnek'da hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And 1 wrote my happy songs... | |
| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer." So I sung the same again, While he wept with joy to heat. 4. " Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read;" So he vanished from my sight, And I pluck'da hollow reed; 5. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliographical literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...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...wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." doubtful. Yet there are few books of which I love to turn over the leaves, more assiduously and carefully,... | |
| Fashion - 740 pages
...he wept with joy to hear. " ' Piper, sit thee down and write " And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs, Every child may joy to hear." A native of the jungle, leaping into the fine drawing-rooms of Cavendish bquare, would hardly create... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, So I sung the same again, Ivhile he wept with jov to hear. " Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book, that all...And I stain'd the water clear, And I wrote my happy songa. Every child may joy to hear. When Mary, and Susan, and Emily, With their sweet round mouths... | |
| Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...pipe ; Sing thy songs of happy cheer 1' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. " ' Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read I' So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed, " And I made a rural pen, And I stained... | |
| Child rearing - 1846 - 292 pages
...pipe, Sins; thy songs of happy cheer — So 1 ftiing 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 1 plucked a hollow real, And I made a rural pen, And 1 stained lite water... | |
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