A popular song from 1922
Words by Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas
Music by Alexander MacFadyen
The sheet music:
Lyrics
A firefly haunts my garden walk
Like the ghost of a baby star
Floating thru hedges of iris bloom
Now near, now shining afar
Mine the roses and mine the bloom
Perfuming the purple night
Mine the stars and the firefly
And mine the tears of delight
What if another garden hold
Roses of rarer bloom
What if another iris walk
Breathes a sweeter perfume
What if countless fireflies
Thru other gardens roam
Theirs not the spell to bring my tears
But these, Ah! these are home