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There was a beautiful garden full of all lovel y flowers , and bright glossy green leaves , beside ripe and luscious fruit , and many waving trees . In it there were mossy and twining paths , where the shade was cool in the summer noon , and soft sloping lawns , where the shadows slept at even-tide . There were
bowers hidden with clustering clematis , and hung with rich garlands of the bright passion-flowers . There was the lulling tone of falling waters , where a fountain rose amid the brightest sunbeams . It was lovely at dew-fall to breathe that fragrant air , and the heart was very glad for the exceeding sweetness .
Now it was evening m that garden , and many dew-drops rested on the flowers . But one , though it lay amid the leaves of a soft young rose whose heart the sun had not as yet seen , was unmindful of all around . For when last the sun had sunk between the western boughs , the dew-drop had fallen on the open lawn—and from far above in the blue space , a star-beam haa penetrated its being .
And henceforth the star became all the world unto the clear dew-drop that had felt its beauty . And night seemed short while the dew lay beneath the stars . But morning came—one by one the stars advanced to greet the early dawn , and as they kissed her fair forehead , they vanished away . So then the dews arose—and passed away also , until evening again .
All the day long the sun smiled on the garden ; but the hours of shadow came out of the east , and their soft wings soon covered the earth . And all the night-time the dew-drop looked on the star of its love—steadfastly but humbly ; for it said " I ana unworthy . " For the dew-drop knew not that pure love maketh noble the heart where it abideth—and the dew-drop knew not , that
affection is truest life . But it loved on . All the night-time , it gazed upwards un changingly . And many nights shone in Heaven o ' er a resting earth ; and ever the same did they pass , unto the dew-drop that worshi pped the star . Only the dew-drop was more and more filled with her love —she no more thought on her unworthiness , she had no thought but of the perfection of beauty — there was no more fear within her .
Now from on high , the star had seen the soul of the dewdrop—that from the first it was bright and clear . And it saw how the dew-drop was steadfast and true , and the star knew how the power of its love was creating yet more of beauty—so that it grew noble , as that which was beloved .
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THE GLOW-WORM . A FAIRY LEGEND :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/13/
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