“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 Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).