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" Star light, star bright! First star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight. "
The Horace Mann Readers - Page 117
by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1911
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Swallows on the Wing O'er Garden Springs of Delight: A Medly of Prose and Verse

William Furniss - 1866 - 98 pages
...clusters of golden jewels — she singing — " Star light, Star bright, The first star I have seen to-night ; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I have wished to-night." And so we rode on in a happy mood, repeating : " I see a star, And the star...
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Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country

Horace Elisha Scudder - Children's poetry - 1875 - 272 pages
...the little fellow. " Gran'ther, I see a star, and I 'm going to say it right off: — " Starlight ! Star bright ! First star I see to-night, I wish I...may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night." And having said it once, Elisha said it a second time, and then a third. " There, Gran'ther, I 've...
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In the Sky-garden

Elizabeth Williams Champney - Astronomy - 1877 - 306 pages
...myself," said Joy blushing; and she repeated, — 206 " Star bright, star light, the first star I've seen to-night, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish to-night." " Well, that is foolish in good earnest," said Puck, laughing. " The first star, indeed ! when you've...
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Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country

Horace Elisha Scudder - Bodley family (Fictitious characters) - 1875 - 270 pages
...the little fellow. " Gran'ther, I see a star, and I 'm going to say it right off: — " Starlight! Star bright! First star I see to-night, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night." And having said it once, Elisha said it a second time, and then a third. " There, Gran'ther, I 've...
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Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 33

1884 - 656 pages
...with entire conviction the well-known doggerel, — Star light, star bright, The first star I've seen to-night : I wish I may, I wish I might Have the wish I wish to-night. As dread is more potent than hope, so the " unlucky signs" have a wider credence than the lucky ones....
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The Viking Bodleys: An Excursion Into Norway and Denmark

Horace Elisha Scudder - Adventure stories - 1884 - 202 pages
...I had escaped from an enchanted country," said Mrs. Van Wyck. " Look ! there is actually a star. ' I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish to-night.' " " What is your wish, mother? " asked Sarah. " It would not come to pass, my dear, if I were to tell...
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Journal of American Folklore

Folklore - 1918 - 620 pages
...Commonly children, on observing the first star seen in the evening, repeat, — " Star bright, star light, First star I see to-night, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night." (Cb, W, Ws, K, R, T, B, R2.) (a) They must not look at that star again during the night, or the charm...
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The Riverside Primer and Reader

Readers - 1898 - 216 pages
...think so. Oh, baby is awake. How bright he is ! Do you think he will play with the ball or with kitty ? Star light, star bright, First star I see to-night...may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night. How many stars are in the sky ? More than you can count, or I. How many drops are in the seas ? How...
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Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading: Selected from English and American ...

Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...Bye, baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in. Star light, star bright, First star I see to-night;...may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night The little moon came out too soon, And in her fright looked thin and white, The stars then shone, And...
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New ... Reader, Volume 3

California. State Board of Education - Readers - 1895 - 224 pages
...Nod. — Eugene Field, Spell : sights, fishermen, twinkling, trundle, rippled, wooden. Copy and learn: Star light, star bright, First star I see to-night;...may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish to-night. 58. THE WISE BOY OF CHINA.* eye'browg reward' thirty serve €6n fu'cius (shus) rea'gons One day as...
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