good and gay


born on Sunday
though
there are other sabbath
days
if
Sunday seems to be the thing

bonnie
pretty
blithe
with elastic goodness
promising to last
to lengthen throughout life
like
the toils of Saturday’s
child

good as in moral
as
in making choices
to delight the
faithful
and confound the worldly

gay
that has been joyful
and still

such a child
always
a child with the rest and so
to grow up with these qualities

yet
shall we say
only
a rhyme that indicates devices
learning days

or
and as
the qualities set
for
these and as the week is covered
for us all
to consider when we’re placed
and so how
we’ll
live

though the magic more so
remains in decisions
that is to say
and
as you
dear
know
in the will of each and every


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here’s the verse as I remember

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 a living,
but the child who’s born on the Sabbath day
is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.

(easier or more difficult for the Sabbath child?)


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