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The HouseofCards: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), 1736-1737, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 cm (National Gallery, London)
A houseofcards
...Is neat and small:
Shake the table,
...It must fall.
Find the Court cards
...One by one;
Raise it, roof it, --
...Now it's done: --
Shake the table!
...That's the fun.
...Is neat and small:
Shake the table,
...It must fall.
Find the Court cards
...One by one;
Raise it, roof it, --
...Now it's done: --
Shake the table!
...That's the fun.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894): A HouseofCards, from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1894)
The HouseofCards: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779),1737, oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)