| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Mower to the Glow-worms | | By Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
| | | YE living lamps, by whose dear light | |
| The nightingale does sit so late, | |
| And studying all the summer night, | |
| Her matchless song does meditate; | |
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| Ye country comets, that portend | 5 |
| No war nor prince’s funeral, | |
| Shining unto no higher end | |
| Than to presage the grass’s fall; | |
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| Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame | |
| To wandering mowers shows the way, | 10 |
| That in the night have lost their aim, | |
| And after foolish fires do stray; | |
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| Your courteous lights in vain you waste, | |
| Since Juliana here is come, | |
| For she my mind hath so displaced, | 15 |
| That I shall never find my home. | | | | |
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