Billy Gilman - Peaceable Kingdom lyrics

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The leopard with a harmless kid lay down

And not one savage beast was seen to frown

The wolf did with the lamb kin dwell in peace

His grim carnivorous nature there did cease

The lion with the fatling on did move

And a little child was leading them in love

Long ago there was a young painter

Who had a dream that every creature came

And stood assembled at his side

And he painted the sight that had sweetened his night

Fully one hundred times before he died

A kid and lion and a snake and a child

Wide-eyed and formal and smiln' like the sun had stopped

And time had ceased to move

And th ewolf andthe lamb came and ate from his hand

And a man-child was leading them in love

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Oh, my friend, have you seen all the lines and the spaces

The colors that the young painter sees

In the peacealble kingdom that shines in the faces of people from more gentle times than these

I find myself adrift these days

An endless maze of ends and ways

And the world just seems so crazy to me here

But look away, back or forward from today

To the visions of either fools or seers

Such a beautiful place full of joy, full of grace

It was bathed in a saintly yellow light

Too unlearned to know that such things can't be so

He could only believe that they might

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