“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;

When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; . . .

Come live, and be merry, and join with me
To sing the sweet chorus of Ha, ha, he!”

—William Blake (17571827), Laughing Song, from Lullabies and Poems for Children, selected and edited by Diana Secker Larson, 2002.