The Glow-worm Golden
John Hilton tells the amateur gardener that "the one thing you mustn’t do about the soil or the garden or wild nature is to get sentimental about it. Or romantic. Early on I made that mistake more than once. There was that glow-worm hiding in the grass just below the staircase window. This was in the very first month. We’d. none of us ever seen a glow-worm; but there it was, gleaming softly in the moonlight, We sat on the window ledge and rhapsodised over it, I quoted softly from Shelley’s poem: Like a glow-worm golden In a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden Its aereal hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view! " At length we tip-toed out to see it at closer range, It was a sardine tin with the moonlight on it."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 7, 11 August 1939, Page 10
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141The Glow-worm Golden New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 7, 11 August 1939, Page 10
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