OLD SCOTTISH NURSERY RHYME.
MY PARENTS QUOTED THIS POEM TO ME WHEN I WAS A CHILD BUT IT DID NOT HELP ME SLEEP…

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,

Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;

Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,

“Are the children in their beds?

It’s past eight o’clock.”

Penned by Glaswegian poet William Miller, it originally appeared as a five verse rhyme written in the Glasgow UK vernacular in 1842.

Perhaps you know it. Over the years the wording and ending has varied, for example the original poem is longer and specified ten o’clock.
See Quora for information:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-nursery-rhyme-Wee-Willie-Winkie-and-what-is-the-story-behind-it#:~:text=The%20character%20was%20the%20creation,is%20the%20personification%20of%20sleep.&text=WILLIE’S%20adventure%20has%20long%20since,is%20how%20it%20first%20appeared%20%E2%80%A6

Here’s the beginning of the extended version – “Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toon, Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-goon, Tirling at the window, cryin’ at the lock, Are the weans in their bed, for it’s now ten o’clock?”

Still wouldn’t get me to sleep.

❤  Gretchen Bernet-Ward