As I write this I can see occasional flashes of light like the flare of giant fireflies out over the scene of the Russian chargethe flashes of small electrical lamps in the hands of the Russian hospital corps.

Now and then the Master's little searchlighthis own wonderful invention, a heatless light like an artificial firefly, using no batteries nor any power save universal, etheric rays in an absolute vacuumglowed with pale virescence over some particularly rough bit of going.

The countless fireflies which spangled the evening mist now only crawl sleepily, daylight creatures, with the lustre buried in their milky bodies.

Here and there yellow light flashed near the ground, far from the walkers, as if a faint firefly were astray in a tangle of flowers.

Howbeit they err who praise this gloomy birth, So frail and desolate and void of mirth That one poor firefly can her might appal.

Its beauties were not entirely overlookedthe innumerable host of stars above, the twinkle of myriad fireflies on the dark earth below.

Unknown, unsuspected groups of them are scattered over the earth, and we never know where we are going to meet themlike fireflies in Summer, like Americans in Europe.

They knelt, each holding above his head a lighted bundle of incense-sticks,red sparks that quivered like angry fireflies.

After the first of July the yellow flowers begin to watch the yellow fireflies; Hawkweeds, Loosestrifes, Primroses bloom, and the bushy Wild Indigo.