"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 generat…"

"The dark is wide and long, The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone, You're still shimmering and leading me on…Fire…"

"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 b…"

"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?"