"Hot oleanders in a rosy vale Search’d by the lamping fly, whose little spark Went in and out, like passion’s bashful hope."
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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, "A Night in Italy"; The Wanderer: A Poem (1859)
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