Choose Something Like a Star - Tim DeLuxe, Ben Onono

Choose Something Like a Star

O Star (the fairest one in sight)

Say something to us we can learn by heart

.the mob is swayed

To carry praise or blame too far

We may choose something like a star

To stay our minds on

And be staid

-- Original poem --

O Star (the fairest one in sight)

We grant your loftiness the right

To some obscurity of cloud --

It will not do to say of night

Since dark is what brings out your light

Some mystery becomes the proud

But to be wholly taciturn

In your reserve is not allowed

Say something to us we can learn

By heart and when alone repeat

Say something!

And it says «I burn.»

But say with what degree of heat

Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade

Use language we can comprehend

Tell us what elements you blend

It gives us strangely little aid

But does tell something in the end

And steadfast as Keats' Eremite

Not even stooping from its sphere

It asks a little of us here

It asks of us a certain height

So when at times the mob is swayed

To carry praise or blame too far

We may choose something like a star

To stay our minds on and be staid