• 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 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...