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Sing thy songs of happy cheer ... Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book that all may read...”
(Verses 5,7,9,10,13, 14)28
Piping the motions of his living heart, he pours all that is heaven-heard and fills his song with divine rhythm, length and strength charming heaven’s length. And having piped “with merry cheer,” the innocent child says, “Piper, pipe that song again,” and as he piped, “he wept to hear.” And beauty wept its tears. And abiding by the child’s call to drop his pipe, he sings and writes the Lamb’s songs with the translucent ink from joyous tears: Light Eternal.
And thus, Blake’s Piper, our White Knight of the Spheres, beloved Poet and most prophetic Bard is the virtuoso maker of songs, the decipherer, the singer of the Holy Word and the Word Holy whose linguistics, tonality and cadence becomes music: Orpheus. And music needs its starry point and counterpoint to infuse its starred “do re mi” into existence, into being, into moving the animate and inanimate. Lucid Verb, Aqua Celestine. Divine.
28 Blake, William. The Poetry and Prose of W. Blake. “Songs of Innocence.” Introduction. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.
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