The Mikado

QUOTATION:

Three little maids from school are we,

Pert as a school-girl well can be,

Filled to the brim with girlish glee,

Three little maids from school!

ATTRIBUTION:

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), British librettist. Trio of girls, in The Mikado, act 1 (1885), published in The Savoy Operas (1926).

BIOGRAPHY:

Columbia Encyclopedia.