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William Blake Songs of Innocence

I like Blake’s poetry and got into him through the Doors who were also influenced by his “the Marriage of Heaven and Hell” which speaks “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite….”. I chose to add music to the “Introduction” to Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” […]

William Blake

“Songs Of Innocence – Introduction” 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 chear. “Piper pipe that song again” -so I piped, he wept to hear. “Drop thy pipe […]