The King was delighted and said that he himself had never once thought of glowworms, but had always used firefly lanterns. Then he called his secretary and told him to make a note of the lighting of Mount Fern.
After that he called his musicians and told them to set the lighting of Mount Fern to music, and this was the song that they sang:
“Sparkle, burnished lanterns,
Silver lanterns!
What a lot of glowworms,
Great and small;
How your lights are shedding
Forth their radiance,
Over King and Captain—
And elves all!”