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The fireflies across the dusk / Are flashing signals through the gloom -- / Courageous messengers of light / That dare immensities of doom.
About the seeding meadow-grass, / Like busy watchmen in the street, / They come and go, they turn and pass, / Lighting the way for Beauty's feet.
Or up they float on viewless wings / To twinkle high among the trees, / And rival with soft glimmerings / The shining of the Pleiades.
The stars that wheel above the hill / Are not more wonderful to see, / Nor the great tasks that they fulfill / More needed in eternity.