...rhyme 'read/reed' associates reading with the instrument of writing and links the Child's utterance ('sit thee down and write / In a book that all may read') with the Piper's active response ('And I pluck'da hollow reed'). At this moment, the poem enacts the...

...'Introduction' to the 1789 Songs of innocence, for example, draws specific attention to the activity of writing: 'And I made a rural pen, / And I stain'd the water clear' (17-18). 29 But these lines lead directly to the image of a poem that is heard, rather than read :...

...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...I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear 20 How sweet is the Shepherds sweet lot, From the morn to the evening he strays: He shall follow his...

...Wordsworth regularly celebrates, and Blake's encomia on writing are frequently "stained" by irony: Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read. So he vanish'd from my sight And I plucked a hollow reed. And 1 made a rural pen And I stain'd the water clear And 1 wrote my happy songs...

...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer!' 10 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 15 And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water...

...pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' 10 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...

...wild" the visionary is relating his commission by the Christ Child to compose these songs of innocence ("Piper, sit thee down and write / In a book, that all may read.") and calling upon biblical tradition to do so. I cannot believe, given Dodgson's fear of blasphemy,...

...happy pipe 10 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.' 15 So he vanished from my sight And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen, And I stained...

...lamb, to sing — to vocalize it — and finally to write it, at which point the child disappears: And I made a rural pen, And I stain'd the water clear,...I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear (E. 7, lines 13-20) The Piper recognizes the causality inherent in this sequence: as soon as he begins...

...Gedicht, wenn in der vierten und fünften Strophe der Sprecher (Dichter) der Aufforderung des Kindes "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read" nachkommt, und damit in der poetischen Reflexion den einschneidenden Konsequenzen beim Übergang von...