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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard
Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed
Variant Title(s): Play Time
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard
Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed
Variant Title(s): Play Time
Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight
When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And every thing else is still
Then come home my children, the sun is gone down
And the dews of night arise
Come come leave off play, and let us away
Till the morning appears in the skies
No no let us play, for it is yet day
And we cannot go to sleep
Besides in the sky, the little birds fly
And the hills are all coverd with sheep
Well well go & play till the light fades away
And then go home to bed
The little ones leaped & shouted & laugh'd
And all the hills ecchoed
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