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

January 1, 1970

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Anonymous, widely circulated in American periodicals from the 1890s and early 1900s. The earliest known citation, in Fiber and Fabric, Vol 27, no. 683 (2 April 1898), p. 84, refers to an unidentified issue of Charles Austin Bates' Criticisms, which ran from 1897 to 1902.