"Love, the Firefly"

Love, the Firefly

Still, still I see the fireflies 

Wandering thro’ the dusk, 

And the music falls about us, 

Like petals of rich musk. 

“Ah, love is but a firefly,” 

The voice of the viol plead; 

“A scarlet, wandering firefly, 

By every fancy led.”

"Love, the Firefly" as it appears in Ella Higginson's The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).