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Firefly

by Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

(A Song)
A little light is going by,
Is going up to see the sky,
A little light with wings.
I never could have thought of it,
To have a little bug all lit
And made to go on wings.




Quotes of the Day

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

• George Bernard Shaw



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  • Walt Whitman
    On Journeys Through The States.
    by Walt Whitman
    ON journeys through the States we start, (Ay, through the world—urged by these songs, Sailing henceforth to every land—to every sea;) We, willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.