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A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
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PoemEnglish
The Echoing Green
by William Blake
A complete poem from Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Original wording and verse line breaks are preserved.
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- 01The Echoing Green~1 min
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The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bells’ cheerful sound; While our sports shall be seen On the echoing green. Old John, with white hair, Does laugh away care, Sitting under the oak, Among the old folk. They laugh at our play, And soon they all say, ‘Such, such were the joys When we all—girls and boys— In our youth-time were seen On the echoing green.’
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