26518. Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	26518
QUOTATION:	Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And every where that Mary went The lamb was sure to go; He followed her to school one day— That was against the rule, It made the children laugh and play, To see a lamb at school.
ATTRIBUTION:	Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879), U.S. author, editor, feminist. Mary’s Lamb (l. 1–8). . . Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.