“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly; “‘Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show when you are there.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet. The Spider and the Fly (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of Children’s Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.
