# Lesson 4

- Source: McGuffey's Second Reader (second-reader.gutenberg.org), Public domain, William Holmes McGuffey, 1879, via Project Gutenberg
- Reading level: Grades 1 and 2
- Subjects: Poems
- Topics: twinkle, little, above, asleep, blazing, dark
- Length: 99 words, about 1 min
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- 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 set,  
  And the grass with dew is wet,  
  Then you show your little light;  
  Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
- Then, if I were in the dark,  
  I would thank you for your spark.  
  I could not see which way to go,  
  If you did not twinkle so.
- And when I am sound asleep,  
  Oft you through my window peep;  
  For you never shut your eye,  
  Till the sun is in the sky.

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## Picture credits

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