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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TELLING THE BEES, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold"
Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs
First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold"
Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs
NAIADS, and ye pastures cold,
When the bees return with spring,
Tell them that Leucippus old
Perished in his hare-hunting,
Perished on a winter night.
Now no more shall he delight
In the hives he used to tend,
But the valley and the height
Mourn a neighbor and a friend.
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