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A Little Lamb

Anonymous, (1100 - 2010)

Original Text: 
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse. Edited by John Gross. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994: 311. PR1195 .H8 O88 1994 Robarts Library
1Mary had a little lamb,
2She ate it with mint sauce,
3And everywhere that Mary went
4The lamb went too, of course.
Publication Notes: 
Also found in Verse and Worse. Edited by Arnold Silcock. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
RPO poem Editors: 
Ian Lancashire, assisted by Ana Berdinskikh
RPO Edition: 
2009
Rhyme: 
abcb
Form: 
quatrain