page_title: Wee Willie Winkie
section_title: Lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Wee Willie Winkie / Lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: William Miller (1810-72) was the author of the well-known nursery rhyme 'Wee Willie Winkie'.
context_page_description: "Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.
context_section_description: The original text of 1841 in Scots, and a paraphrased version for English-language readers (from 1844) are below:
caption: The memorial to the author, William Miller, in Glasgow
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