The nursery rhyme mary had a little lamb is an original poem by sarah josepha hale. an actual incident inspired this poem.mary sawyer was a girl from sterling,massachusetts.she kept a pet lamb and day she took him to school.mary classmates were very pleased when they saw the lamb in the classroom.thomas edison recited the first stanza of this poem to test his invention of the phonograph in 1877.in 1923 edison friend henry ford moved the building which he believed was the original schoolhouse mentioned in the poem mary had a little lamb from sterling. massachusetts to the grounds of wayside inn. перевести текст
