The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife

And yet forgives the Butchers knife

The Bat that flits at close of Eve

Has left the Brain that wont Believe

The Owl that calls upon the Night

Speaks the Unbelievers fright

He who shall hurt the little Wren

Shall never be belovd by Men

— from William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence”

“Spirited Conflict” by Albert Pasini from Widener University Art Museum,

Alfred O. Deshong Collection