A SUMMER EVENING THOUGHT.
Reading edition
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BY COUSIN MARY.
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See the fire-flies brightly sparkling,
While the night around is darkling;
See, above, the star-light streaming,
Part of Heaven’s own radiance seeming.
Brighter than the stars’ far beaming
Is the nearer fire-flies’ gleaming;
This, a moment shall endure,
That, forever, calm and pure.
To our world-bound hearts are given
Joys of earth and hopes of Heaven—
Flitting in the path before us,
Star-like, beaming calmly o’er us.
Shame such choice to deathless spirits,
Who some god-like traits inherit!
Groveling still, we turn our eyes
Earthward from the distant skies,
And to our benighted vision
Brighter earth than “fields Elysian;”
Dearer are the joys here given
Than the promised joys of Heaven!