The Lamb along with several other of Blake's poems, in the 1970s. The Lamb "The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in "Songs of Innocence" in 1776. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in "Songs of Experience". Blake wrote "Songs of Innocence" as a contrary to the "Songs of Experience" – a central tenet in his philosophy and a central theme in his work. Like many of Blake's works, the poem is about Christianity. The lamb is a common metaphor for Jesus Christ, who is also called "The Lamb of God" in John 1:29. This
The Lion, the Bear and the Fox for some little pettifogging attorney to step in, and secure it to himself.' Thomas Bewick indicates the same moral in his illustrated "Select Fables of Aesop" (1784). There the preface to Fable 20, titled "The Lion, the Tyger and the Fox", warns that 'The intemperate rage of clients gives the lawyer an opportunity of seizing the property in dispute'. Just as the story of the dogs who lost everything while fighting over a bone became proverbial in England, the Indian proverbial equivalent is expressed as 'monkey's justice'. The story there is of two cats who fight over a piece of