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THE LONELY PIPER by FENTON JOHNSON

First Line: TELL ME, LONELY PIPER BY THE STREAM
Last Line: AND COMES LEAPING FORTH TO GREET THE DAWN.
Subject(s): PIPERS;
Tell me, lonely piper by the stream,
With your pipe of wond'rous melody,
Why alone sit you and pipe all day
When the gold lies near, and gold is fame?

I am piping for the love of song,
For the sunset and the rise of moon;
I am piping for the summer wind
That hath come afar to hear my strain.

I am piping for a little child,
Sleeping on a couch beneath the earth.
Oh, I hope some day he hears my song,
And comes leaping forth to greet the dawn.



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