Children's Poetry: How Many Seconds?

How many seconds in a minute?
Sixty, and no more in it.

How many minutes in an hour?
Sixty for sun and shower.

How many hours in a day?
Twenty-four for work and play.

How many days in a week?
Seven both to hear and speak.

How many weeks in a month?
Four, as the swift moon runn'th.

How many months in a year?
Twelve the almanack makes clear.

How many years in an age?
One hundred says the sage.

How many ages in time?
No one knows the rhyme.

---Christina Rossetti, in Sing-Song, A Nursery Rhyme Book

Other children's poems contributed already:

• Pam of a rustling of leaves posted a very cute poem she learned from her Grandma Anna.
  
• Jane, who doesn't have a blog, contributed a favorite nursery rhyme in the comments. (This is one of my favorites, too.)
  
• Kim of Hiraeth posts Rebecca, a very funny poem that (oddly enough) I'd never heard before, along with G4 (unfamiliar to me, too). Kim says both of these poems fall into the category of poems "all children everywhere should like if they know what's good for them."
• Update: Lydia Mae, whose email got lost amidst all the others this morning (Sorry about that, Lydia!), posts Birthdays. (Find out a little more about Lydia here.)
  

You, too, can play along with this month's theme activities. You'll find participation instructions here.