Ring around the rosie
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down!
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MEANING:
In reference to The Black Death in Europe around 1347, it would appear as black sores on your body. People stuffed "posies", which were flowers, into their pockets so they couldn't smell the dead bodies that were piling up everywhere.
They began to burn the bodies so the infection could no longer spread which refers to all of the "ashes". The Black Death wiped out a significant 20% of the world's population which signifies "we all fall down".
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Nursery Rhymes
PoetryMy favorite nursery rhymes. NOTE: The cover isn't mine. Credits to whoever made such an amazing digital art!!!
