The Song of Lambert

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Mazo de la Roche. The Song of Lambert

THE SONG OF LAMBERT

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The Song of Lambert

Mazo de la Roche

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She munched the wisp of grass, then swallowed it. She said,—‘Thirty years, off and on, have I been in this field, yet never before have I heard a lamb sing. I have heard birds sing. I have heard the brook sing. I have heard human beings do what they call singing, but never a lamb. And I will say that it is the prettiest song I ever have heard.’

All this while Lambert went on singing. He stood firmly on his four woolly legs and raised his woolly little face to heaven as he sang. He looked exactly like a lamb in a stained glass window in a cathedral. But to his mother, who at that moment discovered him, he looked no more than her naughty disobedient son.

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