Enjoy Eugene
Fields's Poem before you meet Betushka and the
Woodmaiden.
Wynken,
Blynken, and Nod
by Eugene
Field (1850-1895)
this he first calledA Dutch
Lullaby 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.
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