✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
Solomon Grundy, born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday. A whole life told in a single week.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end Of Solomon Grundy.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“Solomon Grundy” was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842. It is a rhyme for learning the days of the week, with one event for each day.
Squeezing a whole life into seven days makes the rhyme funny and a little strange, and it has been a favorite way to practice the days of the week for nearly two hundred years.
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