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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 herring fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.
This way, children, and hear me tell
Of Rip Van Winkle's wonderful nap, --
The oddest fortune that ever befell
A merry and good-for-nothing chap;
Of all the snoozes and slumbers deep,
The strangest, longest, and strongest sleep!
Up in the heart of the Hudson hills,
The lordly, beautiful Kaaterskills.
She loved; but her bosom had buried the dart;
And there, while she strove to conceal it,
Its point had engraven his NAME on her heart
Too deep for her lips to reveal it.
Dearest, a look is but a ray
Reflected in a certain way;
A word, whatever tone it wear,
Is but a trembling wave of air;
A touch, obedience to a clause
In nature's pure material laws.
For some wise purpose, known in heaven,
Thy life approached to mine; --
The full-orbed moon unto the sea.
Upon the waters shine
Its rays, and swell them to a tide
That will not more decline.
But once I met you; yet, lo! it seems
Again and again we meet in dreams.
And I ask my soul what it all may mean;
If this is the love that should have been.
And oft and again I wonder, Can
What God intends be changed by man?
So sick of dreams! the dreams, that stain
The aisle, along which life must pass,
With hues of mystic colored glass,
That fills the windows of the brain.
I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results - or ill.
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