Rhyming

My two year old cousin was just starting to speak and someone had already taught her the old nursery rhymes. At least a few of them although not with the intention of making her learn. But she was interested and one day asked me to help her complete 'Twinkle twinkle little star'. And lo! After telling her the next line even I forgot the rest. Well you can't blame me really because its been almost 15 years since I last said the 'nursery' rhymes. But then I felt ashamed of myself that I couldn't teach a 2 year old, a nursery rhyme.

Then I searched the internet and started learning the rhymes which I had once by-hearted and which were perhaps the first I had learned in English. Learning them again was so thrilling. I felt I was a small kid again. And this time I was a bit more curious and started searching for who had written the rhymes and other related stuff. All these were so much fun. And the next time I saw my cousin, I was prepared for her challenge. I taught her (though am not sure she learnt it) 'Twinkle twinkle little star' , 'Ba ba black sheep' and others.

My 2-year old cousin made me learn something nice, which I had forgotten. And indeed whatever poems we may have learnt - be it the Daffodils by William Wordsworth, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost or the ones by John Keats - these nursery rhymes sound sweeter to the ears however old you may be.

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