The leopard with 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 carniviorous 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 by 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 smilin' like the sun had stopped   And time had ceased to move   And the wolf and the lamb came and ate from his hand   And a man-child was leading them in love      chorus    Oh, my friend, have you seen all the lines and the spaces   The colors that the young painter sees   In the peaceable kingdom that shines in the faces   of people from more gentle times then 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, look away,back or forward from today    To the visions of either fools or seers      CHORUS      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      CHORUS