Word: wynken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe...
...Said Wynken, Blynken...
None the less, Wynken, Blynken and Nod and another lullaby, Little Boy Blue, were poetic masterpieces. And Eugene Field, the gaunt man who wrote them, put such a lyric fluency into whatever he wrote that he became known as "the children's laureate." He is best remembered as that today. No grown-up wishing to be popular with children allows himself to forget the words...