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Rh but the majority of these, written in the popular twenty-six-syllable form called dodoitsu, appear to consist of little more than variants of one old classic fancy, comparing the silent burning of the insect’s light to the consuming passion that is never uttered.

Perhaps my readers will be interested by the following selection of firefly poems. Some of the compositions are many centuries old:—

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