Poems & Selections

Stardust

By: Nat King Cole
And now the purple dusk
of twilight time
Steals across the meadows
of my heart
High up in the sky the
little stars climb
Always reminding me
that we’re apart
You wander down the
lane and far away
Leaving me a song
that will not die
Love is now the stardust
of yesterday
The music of the
years gone by.

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