The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-11
EvARTs, SENTENCES.
He Paragraphs y wen KNOWN Poem in
Pointed Manner.


Pointed Manner.
Few poems have been more generally
admired or phraphrased in the various
Tongues OF earth than that commencing
with the lines:
Mary had little lamb,
It's fleece was white az snoE,
And every where that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
Well, the story is now current at the
National Capital that the distinguished
Secretary of State, when recently in a
iocular crowd of his friends, was desired
to condense into prose these immortal
verses. Urgently solicited, Mr.. Evarts
yielded and wrote as follows:
Mary, a female judged to be of the
race of man, whose family name is I'M
known, whether of native or foreign
birth, of lofty or lowlY lineage, and
whose appearance, manners and mental
cultivation are involved in the most
profound mystery; which probably
never will be fully ascertained, unless
through the most profound researches
of historian admirably trained in his
profession, who shall devote the ablest
efforts of his life to the investigation of
the subject, uhinhuenced by either pas
sion or prejudice, and having only in
view the sacred truth, at the same time
being utterly regardless of the plaudits
or censures of the world, we are in
formed by one who, it has been stated,
at one time while living in that part of
the United States known as Massachu-
sets, whose fishermen have frequently
been involved in difficulties with the
authorities of her majesty Queen Vic
toria, Queen of Great Britain and En-
press of Indies, whose domains extend
over a large share of the habitable globe
thereby endangering the peace which
should so happily exist between nations
of the same blood and language, had an
infant sheep, of which there are many
millions, of various stocks and qualities,
now in our country, constantly adding
wealth and prosperity to our Republic,
and enabling us TO be entirely indie
PENDENT of all other nations for our sup
ply Of wool, now ample for the use OF
factories already busily employed, and
for those which ere long will be con-
structed in all parts of our land, work
ing both by water and steam power, and
IN whatever direction the said Mary
travelled, this animal, whose fleece was
snow white, even az the lofty mountain
regions III the silent sOlitudes of eternal
winter, as the ethereal vapors which oft
float over an autumnal sky, darkly,
deeply, beautifully blue or as the
latteal fluid, covered with masses of
delicate froth, found in the buckets of
the fairy dairy maid, whether meander-
ing through the meadows in midsum,
mer, gathering the luscious strawberry
strollfng in the woodland paths in search
of wild flowers, visiting the church
with her uncles, cousins and aunts, to
listen to the inspired words which come
from the lips of the minister of the
sanctuary, or when retiring to her bliss
full couch, to seek rest and enjoy sweet
repose after the cares of the day, in
fact, everywhere that Mary went this
youthful sheep, influenced, doubtless,
BY that affection which is oft so con
spicuously manifested by the lower ami.
mails in their association with human
beings, was ever observed TO accompany
her"
It is stated that when the pause in the
sentence came, the Secretary, who had
read it without an inspiration, resumed
his stolid diplomatic countenance, and
all mirthfulness had departed from the
faces of that once happy company.