[Cloud]

I was thinking earlier, 'cause I think it hit earlier on the Continent. But that wouldn't make sense, since the rhyme is in English. But if the rhyme has versions all over the world . . . also, just because the interpretation was more recent, doesn't make it untrue. I doubt people were doing scholarly research on nursery rhymes much before then.

the only foreign nursery rhyme I know is "eenie meenie minie moe" in Spanish:

Tin, marin, de do pingue
cucara macara titere fue!