William Blake, Songs of Innocence: A Dream
Once a dream did weave a shade,
That an Emmet lost it's way
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Where on grass methought I lay.
Troubled wilderd and forlorn
Dark benighted travel-worn,
Over many a tangled spray,
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All heart-broke I heard her say.
O my children! do they cry,
Do they hear their father sigh.
Now they look abroad to see,
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Now return and weep for me.
Pitying I drop'd a tear;
But I saw a glow-worm near:
Who replied. What wailing wight
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Calls the watchman of the night.
I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round:
Follow now the beetles hum,
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Little wanderer hie thee home.