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    William Blake's poem "The Lamb" is a simple poem told from the perspective of someone speaking to a lamb, asking who made it and telling it that God made them both. The speaker notes how God gave the lamb life, food, clothing, a tender voice, and calls both himself and the lamb by His name, as He took human form. The poem ends by blessing the lamb in God's name.

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    The Lamb from Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1757–1827)

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    William Blake's poem "The Lamb" is a simple poem told from the perspective of someone speaking to a lamb, asking who made it and telling it that God made them both. The speaker notes how God gave the lamb life, food, clothing, a tender voice, and calls both himself and the lamb by His name, as He took human form. The poem ends by blessing the lamb in God's name.

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    William Blake's poem "The Lamb" is a simple poem told from the perspective of someone speaking to a lamb, asking who made it and telling it that God made them both. The speaker notes how God gave the lamb life, food, clothing, a tender voice, and calls both himself and the lamb by His name, as He took human form. The poem ends by blessing the lamb in God's name.

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    Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    by William Blake (1757–1827

    The Lamb

    Little Lamb, who made thee?


    Dost thou know who made thee?
    Gave thee life & bid thee feed,
    By the stream & o’er the mead;

    Gave thee clothing of delight,


    Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
    Gave thee such a tender voice,
    Making all the vales rejoice!

    Little Lamb, who made thee?


    Dost thou know who made thee?
    Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee,
    Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee!

    He is called by thy name,


    For he calls himself a Lamb;
    He is meek & he is mild,
    He became a little child;

    I a child & thou a lamb,


    We are called by his name.
    Little Lamb, God bless thee.
    Little Lamb, God bless thee.

    Blake, William. “The Lamb.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams. 6th ed.
    2 vols. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. II: 29-30.

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