“Time for sleep; the Nail is near.

“But good children needn’t fear.

“Close the left eye, then the right.

“Now it’s time to say good night.”

Until I was nine, I didn’t really think about it. Or if I thought about it at all, I thought it was just a normal lullaby that mothers all over the country sang to their kids. It wasn’t till much later that I actually asked around about it and found out that nobody else had heard of it.

Every night, as I lay down to sleep, my mother would sing me that s