In Competition No. 3211 you were invited to submit a nursery rhyme inspired by the pandemic.
When I set this challenge, I had in mind ‘Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses’, the rhyme that is said by some to date from the Great Plague of 1665 (though its origins are a subject of hot scholarly dispute).
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