In marble halls as white as milk,

lined with skin as soft as silk

in a fountain crystal clear

a golden apple doth appear.

There are no doors to this stronghold,

yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

 

What is it?

(don't peek!)

 

 

 

Iguana_eggs-copy

 

 

Thanks Billy, for sharing this with me a hundred years ago! 


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4 responses to “A Riddle”

  1. Susan Avatar
    Susan

    Now this is a beautiful riddle—-& would never have guessed it!!

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  2. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Wow–that is a wild photograph–tell me more!

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  3. Laine Avatar

    Nancy, I shot this at Coral Castle, in Homestead, Florida. I was watching the iguana and then she stepped aside and there were those beautiful eggs. I couldn’t tell if she had just laid them or if she was protecting them. That’s all I know!

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  4. Laine Avatar

    Bean, I couldn’t guess it either!

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