《萤火虫》是印度诗人泰戈尔创作的一首歌曲的歌词，未曾收入他任何一部孟加拉语的诗集中。后来，作为短诗被译成英语，介绍到西方。因此，关于这首诗的创作年代很难判定。中学语文教材中的译诗选自上海译文出版社出版的吴岩的汉译英本《鸿鹄集》下卷。据译者介绍，下卷译诗又 “Fireflies” is the lyrics of a song written by the Indian poet Tagore and has never been included in any of his Bengali poetry. Later, as a short poem was translated into English, introduced to the West. Therefore, it is difficult to determine the age of creation of this poem. The translated poems in the Chinese language textbooks for middle schools are selected from the Chinese translation of Wu Yan, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. According to the translator’s introduction, the next volume of translated poetry