A Bug
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(Unfinished Sketch / In Progress)
It happed one day that through a thick-leaved forest wandered I And in that dark buzzed what I thought an ordinary fly ... "If not to pester me, foul creature, why fly thus at night?" "Let me demonstrate," I heard, and sure enough: a light! "An ordinary bug I am, invisible, by day; So when the sun is hid I wake", it said, and lit my way; And before soon the stars and moon we spotted merrily. "What such relief!" I thought, then said, and thanked him heartily; Then brighter still my wingèd friend drew geometric shapes: Shine where you are seen! we sang, Shine where you are seen!