Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"

The Daily Poem

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Eugene Field, (born September 2, 1850, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died November 4, 1895, Chicago, Illinois), American poet and journalist, best known, to his disgust, as the “poet of childhood.” --Brittanica.com

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0:00.0	That was a great dinner.
0:01.0	So great.
0:01.8	Wait, where'd you park the car?
0:02.8	Oh, the one I just sold a Carvana.
0:04.5	What?
0:05.0	When did you do that?
0:06.0	When you were still looking at the menu?
0:07.3	I went on Carvana.com and all I had to do was under the license plate or VIN, answer a few questions, and got a real offer in seconds.
0:13.1	They picked up the car already?
0:14.4	No, I parked on the spot. Oh, no wonder you picked up the check. Yeah, about that.
0:21.3	I thought we were going havesies.
0:22.7	Sell your car to Carvana.
0:24.3	Visit Carvana.com or download the app to get a real offer in second.
0:32.4	Welcome back to the Daily Poem.
0:34.0	I'm David Kern, and today is Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020. And today's poem is by
0:40.4	a poet who was born on September 2nd. His name is Eugene Field, Eugene Field Sr., in fact, and he lived
0:46.6	from 1850 to 1895. He was an American writer, and he was best known for his humorous essays and for his children's poetry. He was known
0:57.4	apparently as the poet of childhood for a long while. The poem that I'm going to read today is
1:04.7	probably a poem that you have heard before. If you haven't heard it, you have at least heard of it.
1:09.3	You probably maybe learned it in school if you're an adult now.
1:13.5	And it is a poem that is most commonly thought of four children.
1:17.7	But it's a delightful little adventure poem, I think,
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