‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ in Latin

Mica, Mica, parva stella;
Miror quaenam sis tam bella!
Splendens eminus in illo,
Alba velut gemma, caelo.

Quando fervens sol discessit,
Nec calore prata pascit,
Mox ostendis lumen purum,
Micans, micans per obscurum.

Tibi, noctu qui vagatur,
Ob scintillulam gratatur;
Ni micares, tu non sciret,
Quas per vias errans iret.

Meum saepe thalamum luce
Specularis curiosa;
Neque carpseris soporem,
Donec venit sol per auram.

Carmina latina, ed. by Roy C. Flickinger (Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 1919), p. 11.

*Although the Latin is suited to the tune of the original nursery rhyme, the editor recommends instead singing the Latin to the tune of Annie F. Harrison’s ‘In the Gloaming’, resolving the half-note into two quarter notes at the end of every alternate line (bella, caelo, etc.) to provide the necessary extra syllable.