Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Origin
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a popular poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was Dutch Lullaby.

The poem is a fantasy bed-time story of three children sailing and fishing in the stars. Their boat is a wooden shoe. The little fishermen symbolize a sleepy child's blinking eyes and nodding head.


 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
 * Sailed off in a wooden shoe —
 * Sailed on a river of crystal light,
 * Into a sea of dew.
 * "Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
 * The old moon asked the three.
 * "We have come to fish for the herring fish
 * That live in this beautiful sea;
 * Nets of silver and gold have we!"
 * Said Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.


 * The old moon laughed and sang a song,
 * As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
 * And the wind that sped them all night long
 * Ruffled the waves of dew.
 * The little stars were the herring fish
 * That lived in that beautiful sea —
 * "Now cast your nets wherever you wish —
 * Never afeard are we";
 * So cried the stars to the fishermen three:
 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.


 * All night long their nets they threw
 * To the stars in the twinkling foam —
 * Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
 * Bringing the fishermen home;
 * 'Twas all so pretty a sail it seemed
 * As if it could not be,
 * And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
 * Of sailing that beautiful sea —
 * But I shall name you the fishermen three:
 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.


 * Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
 * And Nod is a little head,
 * And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
 * Is a wee one's trundle-bed.
 * So shut your eyes while mother sings
 * Of wonderful sights that be,
 * And you shall see the beautiful things
 * As you rock in the misty sea,
 * Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:
 * Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.