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288 GLOW-WORM. 
to his sedentary mate, if it were not for the light 
of her radiant torch. 
“ The chilling night-dews fall ; away, retire ; 
For see, the glow-worm lights her am’rous fire ! 
Thus, ere night’s veil had half obscur’d the sky, 
Th’ impatient damsel hung her lamp on high : 
True to the signal, by love’s meteor led, 
Leander hasten’d to his Hero’s bed.” 
