The Lamb Youth Quotes

The speaker – himself a child – calls the lamb "little" as if it were a younger child or a pet. In the first line, he sounds like a curious boy marveling at nature, but in the second, he sounds more like a teacher.

Just wait until that lamb hits puberty. Seriously, the lamb is humanized a lot like a pre-pubescent boy.

Youth is one of the links between Jesus, the lamb, and the child. Not all of the Songs of Innocence tie youth and innocence together so closely, but this one does.

In Christian thought, even adults are "children" of God. The poem plays with the literal and symbolic meanings of both "child" and "lamb."