Eugene Field
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"Eugene Field, Sr." was an United States/American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.

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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.

The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat.

I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked.

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

She is continuing a tradition.

I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.