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MINISTERING BEES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee
Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees!
Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs


Think you this topaz powder on the bee
Is accidental, frail or fugitive?
That his sole mission, bumping joyously,
Is for the sweetness that the flowers give?

Such noisy busybodies! See the horde
That riotously swarms, unsatisfied
Till each ambrosial storehouse is explored
And every blossom's treasury well pried.

Not frail nor fugitive this tawny dust
Twinkling on antlered head and brittle wings.

It is the vital element that must
Make fertile through predestined scatterings
My cucumbers. Wise AEsculapian bees,
Not merely honey drunken debauchees!





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