Fireflies

"Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug."

"To a child's eye a lightning-bug outshines the brightest fixed star. There is no little childishness in every generation of grown-up people. The Lightning-bug never sees a second summer, the star shines on forever."

"The dark is wide and long, The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone, You're still shimmering and leading me on…Firefly that's what you are Burning for me in my darkest hour "Light breaks where no sun shines" So shine for me tonight — firefly."

"Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love."

"Every Lightning-bug has his night, but he never has had his day."

"And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him."

"Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire."

"Many a night I saw the Pleiads rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid."

"The lightning bug is brilliant But he hasn't any mind He blunders through existence With his headlight on behind."

"Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?"

"The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go."

"Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw."