The Saturdays' Party In Fairyland

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Title:     The Saturdays' Party In Fairyland
Author: Mary Carolyn Davies [More Titles by Davies]

All the Saturdays met one day
(Each was very polite, they say),
They shook each other by the hand,
And had a party in Fairyland!

They wouldn't let any Monday in,
And not one Tuesday at all could win
Her way past the supercilious crowd!
And Wednesdays--why, they weren't allowed!

Thursdays could only stand in the street
And look through the door at the things to eat!
And the Fridays and Sundays pretended they
Didn't like parties, anyway!

But the Saturdays had the greatest fun!
They played "Hop-scotch" and "Run-sheep-run,"
And "Frog-in-the-meadow," and "Pull-away!"
And everything else they wanted to play!

They used the Throne for "Musical Chairs"
As if the Fairy Queen's house were theirs!
In rooms enchanted they ran and hid,
And whatever they wished they could do, they did!

And after they'd played and played and played,
They had pink straws in their lemonade!
And the cookies and tarts were like a dream!
And all the Saturdays had ice-cream!

I'd my doubts when I heard--And you have yours--
But strange things happen on Foreign Shores!
And they say that the best fete ever planned
Was the Saturdays' party in Fairyland!

[The end]
Mary Carolyn Davies's poem: Saturdays' Party In Fairyland

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