If You Gently Touch the Nettle

DESCRIPTION: "If you gently touch the nettle It will sting you for your pains. Grasp it like a man of mettle And it soft as silk remains."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: flowers | nettle
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 147, "If you gently touch the nettle" (1 short text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 66, "(If you gently touch the nettle)" (1 short text)
Roud #25398
File: KSUC147A

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