Arnold Bax - I heard a Piper piping

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I heard a piper piping
The blue hills among —
And never did I hear
So plaintive a song

It seemed but a part
Of the hills’ melancholy:
No piper living there
Could ever be jolly!

And still the piper piped
The blue hills among
And all the birds were quiet
To listen to his song
 
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