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Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.

My star, God's glowworm.

Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.

While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.

Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall.

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles.