Songs About Life and Brighter Things Yet XV
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, But stay, my darling, where you are; Into my life if you should fall, I'd never see you shine at all.
Samuel Hoffenstein
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, But stay, my darling, where you are; Into my life if you should fall, I'd never see you shine at all.
Samuel Hoffenstein borrows the familiar nursery rhyme “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” and turns it into a wry, bittersweet plea. The speaker tells someone he calls “my darling” to stay where she is, because if she fell into his life, he would never see her shine.
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