The Wooden Stick-Horse
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Wooden Stick-Horse
Scripture Reference:
- Psalms 20 (further images / scripture text)
Description: A young child uses his whip to make his stick-horse gallop, as his parents watch and comment. In the background, a horse and his rider make their way and a slightly bent old man walks with a cane. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Ps 20:7, 33:16-19; Pvb 11:28; and Isa 30:15-16, 31:1.
Motto:
That Spirit, before it makes the body bend,
Rides on the Horse that must endure.
Poem:
The innocent rides on the wooden Horse,
With both little feet on the ground,
At which those who know better laughed:
O Wooden Horse of worldly goods,
On which the Rider goes on foot,
Thou art to be mocked and scorned.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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