† The Lamb as symbol both of God's sacrifice, and God's innocence, and God's work to take away the sins of the world and give peace ( Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis) † The Trinity (notice how the child, the lamb, and the Lamb of God form a community of three) To wonder might lead you to be lost inside a children's poem for an hour (or more!) marveling at how the sing-song couplets suggest things as deep and important as: The thing about wonderment is that it is not productive or useful, at least not in the way the world would calculate those things. We might see this as an invitation to return to the posture of childlike wonder at the beauty and goodness of creation something as simple as a lamb, leading us to ponder the blessings of God. That is, to consider things of import and to do so in a posture of open expectation that we might be surprised to discover something new. These days many of us are given more time to wonder. The answer, which comes like the answer to a catechism question, points to the child of God who was also the "lamb of God."
The voice of the poem is that of a human child. A child would likely understand every word here - no arcane or obscure references - only the simple question of a child to a lamb, and a poem built upon the simple pattern of rhyming couplets. The poem, perhaps the most well-known from his Songs of Innocence, is childlike in nearly every way.
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