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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star! single work   poetry   "Twinkle, twinkle, little Star!"
Issue Details: First known date: 1864-1862... 1864-1862 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star!
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Notes

  • Author's note: The Author, while sitting one Winter's evening beside his Family-hearth, was striving to recal divers old Nursery Rhymes ... [N]either the Author nor his Wife was able to recite more than the two commencing Stanzas [of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star']. [They] resolved that the Author should do his best to supplement the hiatus from his own stores of versification. The eight concluding Stanzas were accordingly by him constructed ...

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