"Twilight"

Yester-day was the anniversary of the moon landing in 1969, so I listened to Time, mostly to hear "Ticket to the Moon."  I noticed a handful of small features in a number of songs.

Near the end of "Twilight," from about 3:04 to 3:18, what I think is some kind of synthesizer plays this repeated phrase for a total of eight measures:

A phrase with these same intervals (but a different rhythm) also appears near the end of "Wishing" from the previous album.  I think it's in the violins first, at ~3:23:

The repeated line "Hold on to her" (at ~3:39) is sung to these same pitches with roughly the same rhythm, but the phrases fall within the measure differently.

While the intervals in these parts from "Twilight" and "Wishing" match exactly, I'm not sure if this was an intentional nod to an earlier song or just a coincidence.