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The Zankiwank
O we are so sleepy: Nodding is each head,Playing at bo-peepy, Now the day is sped.Birdies in their nesties Rest in slumber deep;Nodland’s full of guesties When we go to sleep.
To sleep! To sleep! O we are so sleepy! Blinky, winky eyes: Why are you so peepy When the twilight dies?
The slight mist that had descended went up just like a gauze curtain, bringing into view again the lovely garden reposing in the rear in a beautiful green bath of light.
Then the merry Winny Weg caught hold of the cupids and incited them to dance a slow gavotte, and as they danced they warbled lusciously:—