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Quotation by Mother Goose
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Mother Goose (33)Additional Sources
A frog he would a-wooing goHey, diddle, diddleHow many miles to Babylon?I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bearIn marble walls as white as milk (Riddle: An Egg)Related Subjects
hunger (9) cookery (8) drinking (8) fruit (6) sex (6) animals (5) plants (4) health (4) life (4) taste (3)
In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal-clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal-clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. In marble walls as white as milk (Riddle: An Egg) (l. 1–6). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.
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