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<h1>Monday's Child</h1>
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(date 2025-07-09)
(category <a href="../../notes.html">literature</a>)
(status <span class="status-evergreen">evergreen</span>)
(confidence certain)
(importance 3)
(tags poetry criticism nursery-rhymes))
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<p class="preview">Traditional fortune-telling nursery rhyme that predicts a child's character based on their day of birth.</p>
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<p>First Recorded: 1838, in A. E. Bray's book Traditions of Devonshire, Volume 2, p. 124.</p>
<p>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
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.</p>
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