The Echoing Green is a poem from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.

The poem looks at the pleasures of childhood and being able to laugh and play without a care in the world.

An old man sits by looking at the children and reminisces about how he used to do the same. It would almost appear that the old man represents the adult who cannot let go. Perhaps Blake himself?

At the end of the poem it becomes quite sinister and could be swaying towards that it must all come to the end anyway. Childhood can only last so long before it ends. The loss of child hood joys is present in all of the Songs of Innocence though the contrast between perception of joy and actual sorrow is not as present here as it is in "The Chimney Sweep" or "The Little Black Boy" which both show an interesting difference between tone and mood.

American Christian synthpop-band Echoing Green also used this name.