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Look!—where the fiery

Glow-worm in briery

Banks of the moon-mellowed bowers

Sparkles—how hazily

Pinioned and airily

Delicate, warily,

Drowsily, lazily,

Flutter the moths to the flowers.

White as the dreamiest

Bud of the creamiest

Rose in the garden that dozes,

See how they cling to them!

Held in the heart of their

Hearts, like a part of their

Perfume, they swing to them

Wings that are soft as a rose is.

Dim as the forming of

Dew in the warming of

Moonlight, they light on the petals;

All is revealed to them;

All!—from the sunniest

Tips to the honiest

Heart, whence they yield to them

Spice, through the darkness that settles.

So to our tremulous

Souls come the emulous

Agents of love; through whose power

All that is best in us,

All that is beautiful,

Selfless and dutiful,

Is manifest in us,

Even as the scent of a flower.