"Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme, whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem, written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", was first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841.It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1371br br Here are the lyrics :br br Wee willie winkie runs through the town.br upstairs and downstairs in his night gown.br knocking on the window, crying through the lock.br "Are children all in bed, its past eight o'clock".