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Perhaps you are referring to nursery rhymes, traditional poems and songs intended for very young children. A collection was published in 1744 as Tommy Thumb's Song Book, but a 1781 compilation published as Mother Goose's Melody was more enduring, and so the term Mother Goose rhymes (poems, tales,...