![]() The child makes a series of questions to the lamb. The world as depicted in the Songs is a “lower Paradise, very near to the perfect time when lion shall lie down with the lamb.” In the Songs of Innocence God, lamb and child are one and form a trinity. Again, it is He who is Himself a lamb and becomes a little child. The shepherd and Father of Blake’s poems is God. In it human beings have the same kind of security and assurance as belongs to lambs under a wise shepherd or to children with loving parents. In the world of these Songs there is not any suspicion of motives, no envy or jealousy. Songs of Innocenceis a volume of poems in which the poet looks the world through the innocent eyes of childhood and sees beauty and love all around in the society of man and in the world of nature. The Lamb belongs to William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, which appeared 1783. ![]() The Lamb William Blake Line by Line Summary. ![]()
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