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FIREFLIES by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: SOFTLY SAILING EMERALD LIGHTS
Last Line: AND RAISED THEM THUS TO THE OUTER AIR.
Subject(s): FIREFLIES; GLOWWORMS;
Softly sailing emerald lights
Above the cornfields come and go,
Listlessly wandering to and fro:
The magic of these July nights
Has surely even pierced down deep
Where the earth's jewels unharmed sleep,

And filled with fire the emeralds there
And raised them thus to the outer air.



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