“Mary Had a Transposed Lamb”

The second stanza of this poem is an anagram of the first:

A girl once kept a tiny sheep,
Widely famed for whiteness:
This pet would dog her every step,
No certain sign of brightness.

‘Twas viewed, the pest, one day in class
By impish children there;
Kids laugh to see pets, goofing off,
Weren’t trying — open, err!

Composed by James Rambo of Palo Alto, Calif.