A brisk morning rhyme urging early rising, built around the old saying about health, wealth and wisdom. Better suited to breakfast than bedtime.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Cocks crow in the morn
To tell us to rise,
And he who lies late
Will never be wise;
For early to bed
And early to rise,
Is the way to be healthy
And wealthy and wise.
About this rhyme
Text confirms the rhyme is built directly around 'early to bed and early to rise... healthy and wealthy and wise'. · Draft correctly avoids the common myth that this proverb originates with Benjamin Franklin (it predates him) by not attributing it to anyone.
A wake-up rhyme, built around the old saying about early nights making for early, healthy mornings. The cock's crow does the job an alarm clock does now.
Good for actual getting-up time. Stretch big on the word 'rise'.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition