Read the full text of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”.We're using the original version of the poem here there's also a slightly expanded version that includes a few extra lines insulting Hamelin's Mayor. Whatever we commit to, the speaker advises young Willy at the end of the poem, "let us keep our promise." Browning first published this poem in the 1842 collection Dramatic Lyrics it later became popular as a stand-alone children's book illustrated by Kate Greenaway. The poem thus serves as a cautionary tale against dishonesty. He proves as good as his word-but the town's greedy Mayor still tries to cheat him of his agreed fee, and the Piper retaliates by luring the town's children away. In this retelling of an old legend, a mysterious musician dressed in red-and-yellow check offers to rescue the medieval town of Hamelin from a plague of rats with his magical pipe-playing. The Victorian poet Robert Browning wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" to amuse his young friend Willy (the son of his friend William Macready) while he was recovering from an illness.
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