Friday as I was sitting at my desk typing the Verse of the Day, something came to me. Remember those nursery rhymes you used to memorize as a child? The first one that came to mind was…

Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and *gay;

Little boy blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow,
The cow’s in the corn.
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He’s under a haystack,
Fast asleep.

Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

These are poems that remind us of the innocent days of our youth. Perhaps that is why some of us write different genres of poems that rhyme. Or go even deeper with more heart and imagination wondering why was Wednesday’s child full of woe or where did the dish and the spoon run away to and did the cow jump over the moon to some galaxy far, far away? What do you think?

Some nursery rhyme trivia. The nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child is Fair of Face” was first recorded in 1838 in Traditions of Devonshire by A.E. Bray but the rhyme is believed to date back to the early 19th century. James Orchard Halliwell collected the rhyme in the mid-19th century. 

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