#Saturday February 26

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Reading constantly helps me learn something new or revisit something I had forgotten. That happened yesterday with the word SATURDAY.

SATURDAY is named after the Roman god and planet Saturn; Saturday is the only day of the week that retained its Roman origin in English. Learning about the other days of the week can be found here.

For the 30-Day Poetry Coach4aday Challenge I wanted to read a poem about Saturday. For the record I supplemented that reading with a couple of songs also. Writing this post, I had songs turned up loud by Cat Stevens and Elton John playing.

Saturday Evening by John Newton

If you want to read the entire poem by John Newton, you need to go to this link.

This piece of poetry starts out with the following lines:

Safely through another week,
God has brought us on our way;
Let us now a blessing seek,