Mower to the Glow-Worms, The. By Marvell, Andrew. Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late, And, studying all the summer-night, Her matchless songs does mediate; Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall; Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame To wandering mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim, And after foolish fires do stray; Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since Juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displaced That I shall never find my home.