Fireflies

Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug.

— Fireflies

To a child's eye a lightning-bug outshines the brightest fixed star. There is no little childishness in every generation of grown-up people. The Lightning-bug never sees a second summer, the star shines on forever.

— Fireflies

Before, beside us, and aboveThe firefly lights his lamp of love.

— Fireflies

Every Lightning-bug has his night, but he never has had his day.

— Fireflies

And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,Waved their torches to mislead him.

— Fireflies

Now, motionless and dark, eluded searchRose like a shower of fire.

— Fireflies

Many a night I saw the Pleiads rising thro' the mellow shade,Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.

— Fireflies

The lightning bug is brilliant    With his headlight on behind.

— Fireflies

Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows,And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

— Fireflies

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

— Fireflies

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

— Fireflies