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Wynken, 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 come to hunt 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;