English poem
My first ’s possessed by men and dogs and goats
by Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
My first ’s possessed by men and dogs and goats, By houses, churches, books and hats and coats.
My second was a maiden young and fair, Entrusted to a guardian’s watchful care.
He who ’s my whole cannot achieve great fame; Read my whole backward and it spells the same.
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