What a sweet and happy poem! "Introduction" from William Blake's Songs of Innocence starts with a happy man piping out songs, until a child on a cloud appears.
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The child asks the musician to "pipe a song about a Lamb" (5). A Lamb? Like capitol "L"? are we talking about Jesus here? If so, I can understand why the cloud kid would cry. Jesus did die for our sins, after all.
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Cloud child must have loved his skills because he then asked the man to compose and sing a song right then and there! Good thing that this cherub is basically a muse because no one is THAT talented (unless you were raised by elves, of course).
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So when the child tells the piper to write a book of songs and disappears, instead of having a lot of questions to ask he does this:
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What the heck? How could this piper just pick up a pen and start writing? I would have a lot of questions to ask. Where did the cloud child come from? Why should I not continue performing songs? Was I high? Did I go into a poppy field? These are all valid! Oh well. It was a really sweet and happy introduction to the class.
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