Laughing Song

by William Blake (1789) — a poem card from Justes Mots

The whole green world — woods, meadows, grasshopper, and girls — caught in one ringing chorus of laughter.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy

And the dimpling stream runs laughing by,

When the air does laugh with our merry wit,

And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
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Themes: birthday · friendship