The message of the stars !

A life-time of extensive and deep and intense scholarship makes one a good student at last. Education's humility just makes you come to senses.

What a wonderful collection is this The World's Best Poetry - set of ten volumes which came in 1904, published by John D Morris and Company! In the first volume I came across the full form of that old beautiful nursery poem - 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...'

Who has written this, perhaps nobody knows. The author is given as anonymous.

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

When the glorious sun is set,
When the grass with dew is wet,
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.

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

As your bright and tiny spark
Lights the traveller in the dark,
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star! '

What sentiments! And what passion with nature !. All along the child's mind and outlook is kept intact. And with that all which need be told is told. My salutations to the poet whoever he might have been.

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