"YOU with light Gas the lamps nocturnal feed,

"YOU with light Gas the lamps nocturnal feed,
Which dance and glimmer o'er the marshy mead;
Shine round Calendula at twilight hours,
And tip with silver all her saffron flowers;
Warm on her mossy couch the radiant Worm,
Guard from cold dews her love-illumin'd form,
From leaf to leaf conduct the virgin light,
Star of the earth, and diamond o

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Irish poet and songwriter, friend of Byron, celebrated for Irish Melodies and lyrical romantic verse.

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