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by Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879 - 1967 )

Gold is a metal
Language: English 
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Gold is a metal 
Gold is a ring 
Gold is a very 
Beautiful thing. 
Gold is the sunshine 
Light and thin 
Warm as a muffin 
On your skin. 
Gold is the moon 
Gold are the stars; 
Jupiter, Venus,
Saturn and Mars, 
Gold is the color of 
Clover honey 
Gold is a certain 
Kind of money. 
Gold is alive 
In a flickering fish 
That lives its life 
In a crystal dish. 
Gold is the answer 
To many a wish. 
Gold is feeling 
Like a king 
It's like having the most 
Of everything – 
Long time ago 
I was told 
Yellow's mother's name 
Is gold...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879 - 1967 ), "What is gold?" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ruth Watson Henderson (1932 - 2026), "Gold", published 2002, copyright © 2000 [ sa chorus and piano ], from Adventures in Color, Earthsongs
        Publisher: Earthsongs [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-09-05
Line count: 30
Word count: 103

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