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Firefly! wait, but a moment, in your flight; / Stay, gleaming thing, and tell me of that night, / When you were taken by a fairy hand, / And cast into the grate to light the brand, / In that fair room of bliss and rosy dream.
For love of God! I pray you, moving beam / Of light, stay, now my memory is woke -- / You will not leave me now you do invoke / My thought to that dear night, long gone, when she, / With elfin joy, went out and captured thee.