| Rhyme to Forget "Ring around the roses" Fence them in with barbs of steel, Keep the children at their reel, Around the dread black plague. "A pocket full of posies" Stolen from the yard that day, Before the proclamation came, they say, Signed by death, disease its seal. "Ashes ashes" Burn the buildings, burn the town, But no firebreak will bring this down. For the pale Horseman rides this day! "They all fall down" Never to rise, In their once shining eyes, Gather the clouds of death. Tell a tale of black disease, In rhyming poem, to a child, And maybe he will forget the while, That everyone lies dead. |