Mantra of Every Explorer

[publicstaticvoid]

Yes, there are 2 unknown verses:

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

When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!

Then the traveller in the dark, Thanks you for your tiny spark, He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!

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. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!

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

-The Star by Jane Taylor
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-Void

 

[Logan Darklighter]

Nice!

I've always been partial to "The Green Hills Of Earth" poem/song by Robert A. Heinlein.

There are many verses scattered around. And different ways of ordering them. But here's my favorite version:

THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH
-Robert Heinlein
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.

Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---

Feel her rise! Feel her drive!
Straining steel, come alive!

My heart turns home in longing
Across the voids between,
To know beyond the spaceways
The hills of Earth are green.
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.