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Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love. - Reginald Heber, Tour Through Ceylon Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans, The Better Land And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. - James Russell Lowell, Midnight (st. 3) Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. - James Russell Lowell, The Lesson Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. - Robert Southey, Madoc (pt. II) Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (l. 9)
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