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SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by                    
Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die
Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


SWEET honey-sucking bees,
Why do you still surfeit on roses, pinks, and violets
As if the choicest nectar lay in them
Wherewith you store your curious cabinets?
Ah, make your flight to Melisuavia's lips
There may you revel in Ambrosian cheer
Where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit
Keeping their spring-tide graces all the year
Yet sweet take heed, all sweets are hard to get
Sting not her soft lips, O beware of that,
For if one flaming dart come from her eye
Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die.





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