![]() The melody of the fourth bar in the British version consists of one note repeated three times, whereas in the American version, the fourth bar consists of one note, then a note repeated twice that is two steps higher than the previous note. Note: This melody is the British version, which is slightly different from the American version. The earliest recording (1878) was retrieved by 3D imaging equipment in 2012. In 1927, Edison reenacted the recording, which still survives. It was the first instance of recorded English verse, following the recording of the French folk song "Au clair de la lune" by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860. The rhyme was the first audio recorded by Thomas Edison on his newly invented phonograph in 1877. The text as originally published consisted of three stanzas, each of eight lines, although the ABAB rhyming scheme allows each stanza to be divided into two four-line parts. Mary Sawyer's house, located in Sterling, Massachusetts, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, but was destroyed by arson on August 12, 2007. ![]() The property was later purchased by Henry Ford and relocated to a churchyard, on the property of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The Redstone School, where Mary Sawyer attended school and purports the incident took place, was built in 1798. A 2 ft (61 cm) tall statue and historical marker representing Mary's Little Lamb stands in the town center. The earliest evidence of the poem's publication is Sarah Josepha Hale's 1830 collection of poems, supporting her complete authorship of the poem.Įven though this claim is unsupported by evidence, multiple sites in Sterling, Massachusetts, perpetuate the claim. ![]() The "slip of paper" has never been produced as evidence. The young man was very much pleased with the incident of the lamb, and, the next day, he rode across the fields on horseback, to the little old schoolhouse and handed me a slip of paper, which had written upon it the three original stanzas of the poem" This account is not supported by evidence beyond Mary's memory. It was the custom then for students to prepare for college with ministers, and, for this purpose, Roulstone was studying with his uncle. Mary recalled, "Visiting school that morning was a young man by the name of John Roulstone a nephew of the Reverend Lemuel Capen, who was then settled in Sterling, Massachusetts. As a young girl, Mary kept a pet lamb that she took to school one day at the suggestion of her brother. In 1876, at the age of 70, Mary Tyler (née Sawyer March 22, 1806, died December 11, 1889) emerged to claim that she was the "Mary" from the poem. The Redstone School (1798), now in Sudbury, Massachusetts, is the schoolhouse Mary Tyler attended. Mary loves the lamb, you know The teacher’s happy smile. Then Sarah used the incident to get a moral across to the class: The other youngsters wanted to know why the lamb loved Mary so much and their teacher explained it was because Mary loved her pet. The visitor was far too distracting to be permitted to remain in the building and so Sarah 'turned him out.' The lamb stayed nearby till school was dismissed and then ran up to Mary looking for attention and protection. Sarah was surprised one morning to see one of her students, a girl named Mary, enter the classroom followed by her pet lamb. ![]() It was at this small school that the incident involving 'Mary's Lamb' is reputed to have taken place. "Sarah began teaching young boys and girls in a small school not far from her home. As described in one of Hale's biographies: The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622. " Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. Illustration by William Wallace Denslow (1902) ![]()
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