The Lamb

I was most familiar with Blake's "The Lamb" because I had sung it before as a child. We sung this song around Christmas, depicting the speaker being God talking to a lamb in the stable. I love Blake's poetic metaphorical language. He took his inspiration from Scripture and told the poem as a narrative. The speaker talks to the small lamb and tells it of the Lamb who made and created it for great things. I think Blake also relates us to the small lamb and the plans and all of our many blessings the Lamb has blessed us with and the plans He has in store for us.