Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 42

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XLII ON THE HEARTHRUG
"Little tongue of red-brown flame,Whither go you?"—"Whence I came;Sending on a courier sparkTo explore the chimney dark.
"Once I was a sunbeam fair,Darting through the awakened air.Quickly to a green leaf gone,On a forest tree I shone.
"Steely lightning struck the bough,And I sank into a slough.Many ages there I lay,Ere I saw the All-Father, Day.
"Now I sparkle once again,Flashing light and warmth to men,Ere, like all things that are bright,I rejoin the All-Mother, Night."
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