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'Who are dead? said Waverley, forgetting the incapacity of Davie to hold any connected discourse. 'Baron, and Bailie, and Saunders Saunderson, and Lady Rose that sang sae sweet a' dead and gane dead and gane; But follow, follow me, While glowworms light the lea, I'll show ye where the dead should be Each in his shroud, While winds pipe loud, And the red moon peeps dim through the cloud.
Directly it dipped below the horizon, glowworms and fireflies came out, bright and numerous as though the stars had come down to tread, or rather fly, a fairy dance among the branches of the tall palm-trees high overhead. Our rooms were most comfortable, and the baths delicious.
To-night the harbor looks like only a dark and sinister rent, which the moonbeams can not fathom a yawning crevasse opening into the very bowels of the earth, at the bottom of which lie faint, small glimmers, an assembly of glowworms in a ditch the lights of the different vessels lying at anchor. It is the middle of the night, perhaps about two o'clock in the morning.
The lights of the city were like a bed of glowworms, but the small, sad boy was blown off into the sea again, for his hour had not yet come. Here is the last entry I shall weary you with, for I would not abuse your patience: "APRIL 5, 1857. I was awoke this morning by the noise the pilot made in getting on board. At ten o'clock the steam-tug Hercules took us in tow. Cresey, Mr.
Mamma said I might; and whilst we are looking for the glowworms, you can sit on a stone, or a bank, and read your letter in peace."
The dancing sward was very light, for a thousand and ten glowworms came from the marsh and hung their beautiful lamps over the spot where the little folk were assembled. If the moon and the stars were jealous of that soft, mellow light, they had good reason to be. The fairies and elves circled around in lively fashion.
It happened to be that season of the year at which glowworms put forth their greatest brilliancy, and the light they yielded was more than ample for the purpose, since it is possible on such nights to read the handwriting of a letter by the light of two or three. The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
I thought of that small child in sleep in the arms of that woman, and a great sobbing came from my heart as I threw myself into my Cherry, after giving a supper to good Lightfoot, and fled down the long road to the distant city of Hayesville that lay away in the valley like a great nest of glowworms in a glade of the leaves of darkness.
They were not elves; they were human beings. It was so sweet and fragrant there! The girls disappeared in the forest, and the sweet fragrance became stronger: three coffins, with three beautiful maidens lying in them, glided from the wood-thicket across the lake; the glowworms flew gleaming about them like little hovering lights. Are the dancing girls sleeping, or are they dead?
Follow me, please, and I hope you will find the old gentleman's umbrella." "I would give you fifty florins for it, Mrs. Müncz." At the words "fifty florins" the old woman's eyes shone like two glowworms. "Oh! what a good son!" she sighed, turning her eyes up to heaven. "There is nothing more pleasing to God than a good son, who honors the memory of his father."
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