Twinkle, twinkle, little star - I know exactly what you are: An incandescent ball of gas, Condensing to a solid mass.
Twinkle, twinkle, giant star - I need not wonder what you are, For seen through spectroscopic ken You’re helium and hydrogen.
-- Peter Marshall
(Quoted in Robert Ettinger’s “The Prospect of Immortality.” Ettinger says that Gene Lund credited it to Peter Marshall. I haven’t been able to find a more direct source that confirms this.)
Edit: How do you force a line return so that a poem will read correctly? Thanks, fixed now.
-- Peter Marshall
(Quoted in Robert Ettinger’s “The Prospect of Immortality.” Ettinger says that Gene Lund credited it to Peter Marshall. I haven’t been able to find a more direct source that confirms this.)
Edit: How do you force a line return so that a poem will read correctly? Thanks, fixed now.
End the line with two (or more) spaces.
Thanks very much.
Excellent! My kids get this version:
Twinkle Twinkle little star,
We all know just what you are,
You’re a sun that’s far away,
Far too faint to see by day
Twinkle Twinkle little star,
We all know just what you are
Put a double space at the end of the line.