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Dusti's avatar

I love this idea. I’m not sure at what ages you’re aiming, but my youngest children (7 and 10) and I are currently working on memorizing these. I’m not sure they would find it easier to memorize this poem as a means of memorizing the plagues, but it is a wonderful enrichment to the work. They do well with memory palaces and acting out the plagues has been helpful for them, but beautiful language is always a welcomed addition.

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Joffre Swait's avatar

Thank you.

If you decide to use this, let me know how it goes.

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Daniel Bishop's avatar

This is great! The only part that made my eye twitch (a little) was "the cattle dies" instead of "die," but any poem that gives kids permission to run around the house singing about "asses" in the KJV sense is alright by me.

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Joffre Swait's avatar

Sweet. Yeah, asses is fun.

That "dies" part makes me twitch as well. You think a cross rhyme with the correct tense would be better? There are no other cross rhymes.

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Daniel Bishop's avatar

I am very tolerant of cross-rhymes. Perhaps to a fault. But I did notice you used no cross rhymes throughout.

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Joffre Swait's avatar

I don't at all mind using them. I think this being a kids' thing helped keep the rhymes "straight". Anyway, it's having a single cross-rhyme that freaks me out. :-D I guess I'll have to get over myself.

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Joshua Trygstad's avatar

This is great!

What I remember my mother teaching me as a youngster was this, which I assumed was original to her(?).

For the little ones:

Blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies

Cattle Dies

Boils, Hail, Locust, Dark

Egypt Wails, Israel Departs

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Susan Burger's avatar

Oh my goodness! This is so beautifully written and so powerful!!! Soli Deo Gloria!!!

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