The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

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Poems in English 

• Les Roses de Sâdi poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lament poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Johnnie Armstrang poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Jock O The Side poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• In Ithica poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Gordon Of Brackley poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Edom O’ Gordon poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Double Ballade Of Primitive Man poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Before The Snow poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballades V – Of His Choice Of A Sepulchre poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballades IV – Of Life poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballades III – Of Blue China poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballades II – Of The Book-Hunter poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballades I – To Theocritus, In Winter poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballade Of True Wisdom poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballade Of Sleep poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang
• Ballade Of The Royal Game Of Golf poem – Andrew Lang poems by Andrew Lang

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