Mary Had a Little Lamb
its fleece was white as snow
and everywhere that Mary went
the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day
which was against the rule.
It made the children laugh and play
to see a lamb at school.
Mary Had a Little Lamb was written by Victorian novelist and poet, Sarah Josepha Hale.
She is also known as one of the key petitioners in the creation of Thanksgiving day.
"Today, she is considered the most prominent American woman engaged in literary enterprise in the mid-nineteenth century."- http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Hale__Sarah_Josepha.html
Here is the letter Hale wrote to Abraham Lincoln requesting that Thanksgiving become a public holiday.
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