“MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB”

The Blessed Mary had a lamb, It too was white as snow, Far whiter than I ever am— Always and always so. She found it lying in the stall Wherefrom the oxen fed, With hay for bedding, hay for shawl, And hay beneath its head. She followed near it every day In all the paths it trod, She knew her lamb could never stray (It was the Lamb of God). And when the cloud of angels came And hid It from her sight, Its heart was near her all the same Because her own was white. So when she slept white lilies screened Her sleep from all alarms, Till from His Throne her white lamb leaned And waked her in His Arms.