Led by a moonbeam or the flickering torch

The firefly flares, amid the loneliness,

The hereditary loneliness of the trees,

I, too, may see,—as sees the star that peeps

Through interlacing boughs, the toadstools heave

Their white roofs through the ferns, like goblin huts,

An elfin town; and, squatting on their tops,

Punch-bellied things, peak-kneed, their knees up-drawn

To perpendicular eyes of glow-worm flame,

And arms akimbo i' the light o' the moon,