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A DUTCH LULLABY.[¹]

YNKEN, Blynken, and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe—

Sailed on a river of misty light

Into a sea of dew.

“Where are you going, and what do you wish?”

The old moon asked the three.

“We have to come to fish for the herring-fish

That live in this beautiful sea: