Marrow is/was so well known as the best part that it appeared in poetry and prose. KVJ Bible Psalms: 63:5 (there are many others) > My soul is feasted as with

Marrow is/was so well known as the best part that it appeared in poetry and prose. KVJ Bible Psalms: 63:5 (there are many others) > My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, Thoreau in Walden, > I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, ...