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Lanterns and Lamps
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JANE MERCHANT 443 LANTERNS AND LAMPS from The Greatest ofThese (1954) My parents carried light with them, for they Lived in the days when people made their own Or did without. The lantern's frosty ray, When Dad came late from milking, always shone As if a star were coming home to us, And if I called at midnight, goblin-harried, The shadows fled and night grew luminous Before the little lamp that Mother carried. Folk have small need of lamps and lanterns now; Even on farms the darkness will withdraw By swift electric magic, but somehow I always shall be grateful that I saw My parents' coming make the darkness bright And knew them as the carriers of light. ...