Education: Children's Laureate

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 her ring fish"

That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have we!"

Said Wynken, Blynken And Nod.

Such was the music once to be heard in a certain house on a certain street in Chicago. The man that made it, a gaunt fellow...

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