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tiful birds. He captures the living spark, as it 

 glows with its own light, and uses it for a torch to 

 guide him through the forest gloom. 



And the ladies place the brilliant spark amid 

 their hair, letting it gleam and sparkle like a 

 diamond ; or they wear a robe of gossamer texture, 

 through which glow a myriad of fire-flies, so that 

 the wearer seems as if clad in a starry vesture ! 



