LIGHTS TO DEVOTION. 177 



But the glimmer of our English glow-worm ? that surely 

 can serve no other uses save its own ? She would be a dull 

 diamond in the maiden's tresses a dim light to read by a 

 sorry lantern on a murky night. True ; but for all that, she 

 shines not for herself alone: for us, also, her light is not 

 without its uses. What these are, we may best answer when 

 returning from our summer's evening walk, as the glow- 

 worms and the stars are coming out together ; for then our 

 minds must be more creeping than the wingless light-bearers 

 themselves, if they rise not from them to the glorious orbs 

 they humbly imitate, and thence to the Great Source and 

 Centre of Life and Light, from whom alike emanate the 

 " stars of the earth" and the suns of the universe. 



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