"
The Lamb" is a poem by
William Blake, published in
Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1789. In the first stanza, the speaker asks the lamb – considered a pure and gentle creature – who his creator is. In the second stanza, comparisons are made between the lamb and the infant
Jesus, as well as between the lamb and the speaker's soul. In the last two lines the speaker identifies the lamb's creator as
God.
Illustration: William Blake; restoration: Adam Cuerden