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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

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Twinkle, twinkle, little star — the full words of Jane Taylor's 1806 poem, all five verses, not just the one everybody knows.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the trav'ller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so.

Then the trav'ller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep, And often thro' my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye, Till the sun is in the sky.

In the dark blue sky you keep, And often thro' my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye, Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark, Lights the trav'ller in the dark,— Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little…

As your bright and tiny spark, Lights the trav'ller in the dark,— Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

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Text source: Jane Taylor, «The Star», from Rhymes for the Nursery (1806). Public domain. The verse is given exactly as printed; only the afterword is ours. www.gutenberg.org

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