A little child shall lead them

by Bob Schwartz

Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom

The wolf shall live with the lamb;
the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
the calf and the lion will feed together,
and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah 11:6

Christopher Robin had made a long table out of some long pieces of wood, and they all sat around it. Christopher Robin sat at one end, and Pooh sat at the other, and between them on one side were Owl and Eeyore and Piglet, and between them on the other side were Rabbit, and Roo and Kanga. And all Rabbit’s friends-and-relations spread themselves about on the grass, and waited hopefully in case anybody spoke to them, or dropped anything, or asked them the time.
Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter Ten, In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-bye