A RIDDLE
I’ve only one foot, but thousands of toes; My one foot stands and never goes. I’ve a dozen arms, and they’re mighty all, And hundreds of Angers, large and small. From the ends of my fingers, my beauty grows. I breathe with my hair, and I drink with my toes. None e’er saw me eat, for I’ve no mouth to bite; Yet I eat all day in the full sunlight. In the summer with song I shake and quiver, But in winter I fast and groan and shiver. —George Macdonald.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)
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92A RIDDLE Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)
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