The Night Mail and Other Poems

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Nets of silver and gold have we!"

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Said Wynken, Blynken, And Nod.

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The old moon laughed and sang a song,

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As they rocked in the wooden shoe,

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And the wind that sped them all night long

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Ruffled the waves of dew.

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The little stars were the herring fish

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That lived in that beautiful sea--

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"Now cast your nets wherever you wish--

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So cried the stars to the fishermen three:

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Wynken, Blynken, And Nod.

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All night long their nets they threw

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To the stars in the twinkling foam--

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Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,

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Bringing the fishermen home;