Eugene Field (1850–1895) American writer
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/poemsofchildhood/wynkenblynkenandnod.html, st. 1 <br class="br">Love Songs of Childhood (1894)
“Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.”
prologue, l. 8.
The Drummer (1716)
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