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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372379" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lamb and the Wolf (Ballad)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw a lamb to wolf turn prey! <br>I saw it kill’d in gruesome way; <br>The lamb was rather small, I say; <br>I saw it frolicking that day; <br>It bleated while busy at play; <br>That day, its life, it had to pay; <br>And soon, I heard a plaintive cry; <br>The grass was smeared by lamb’s blood dry! <br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wolf was dressed in fine lamb-skin; <br>It killed by habit, kith and kin; <br>Like lamb, it spoke and went so near; <br>It acted friendly, allayed fear; <br>It took the lamb afar to play; <br>The lamb was foolish on that day; <br>It was so meek and frail, not bold; <br>It wished to see the far-off world.<br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wolf then took the lamb away, <br>To steep a cliff with grass to play; <br>In moment’s time, it pushed it down; <br>The foul-play was almost half-done; <br>The lamb remained so very dazed; <br>That it was live, kept me amazed; <br>Before it could then recover, <br>The wolf made plans to devour.<br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wolf noticed the lamb’s sad plight<br>And asked if it was quite alright; <br>It said, “I’ll take you to mother.”<br>The lamb believed the lie, brother! <br>It took it round and round and round; <br>There was no sign of flock on ground; <br>The lamb had gone really far; <br>Against the wolf, it could not war.<br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The lamb couldn’t walk any farther; <br>To pray to God, it didn’t bother; <br>It was so tired, hungry too; <br>It did not know what next to do; <br>The wolf then caught the lamb by throat; <br>The blood spilled down its white fur-coat; <br>The lamb was dead in moments split; <br>The wolf ate lamb and tried to sit; <br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wolf had feasted like a drill; <br>It ate with joy and had its fill; <br>It worked its way with pretty skill; <br>It left no trace of lamb on hill; <br>It was the poor lamb’s folly still.<br>The lamb had vanished from the rill; <br>It was too weak to fight by will; <br>The lamb had died a death cruel.<br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O shepherd good and experienced<br>With staff so long and strong and hooked; <br>If you had been awake and heard<br>The poor lamb’s cry, you could it saved; <br>If you had spotted wolf disguised, <br>One blow by staff you could have killed; <br>If you had watched with care, brother, <br>It would have stayed near its mother; <br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then good shepherd, “Why didn’t you come<br>To save lamb’s life from wolf’s welcome? ”<br>The little lamb didn’t know wolf’s scent; <br>It was too small and innocent; <br>Its legs were weak and could not run; <br>It thought that life was only fun; <br>If more alert had been shepherd, <br>The lamb needn’t go astray or erred.<br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had shepherd failed to act aright? <br>Had wolf deceived the lamb’s eye-sight? <br>Did not God know the lamb’s poor plight? <br>How could a lamb give wolf a fight? <br>Was it an act of destiny? <br>Was lamb to blame for mutiny? <br>Perhaps, the lamb was bound to die, <br>Allured by wolf’s broad day-light lie! <br>My good shepherd, “Did you not know? ”<br>My God, “Did You all this allow? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 1-11-2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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I saw it kill’d in gruesome way; 
The lamb was rather small, I say; 
I saw it frolicking that day; 
It bleated while busy at play; 
That day, its life, it had to pay; 
And soon, I heard a plaintive cry; 
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