does anyone know this poem

[cumbrianlad]

Im trying to find a poem called "Grasp the nettle" which my mother remembers from her schooldays ( 1940's) it goes something like-

GRASP THE NETTLE WITH BOTH HANDS,
AND IT WILL NOT STING,
TAKE THIS LITTLE BIT OF WISDOM,
INTO EVERYTHING.

Any ideas ?

[dundurn]

Not your poem, unfortunately, but I remember this one from my childhood - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains. Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

[chadad]

It's true Dundern,
If a nettle brushes against you it stings, But the palms of your hands being thicker, means that you can pick leaves off a nettle with impunity.