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MEMORY (2) by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: LO, THE BLOSSOM TO THE BEE
Last Line: WHAT WAS SWEETEST, LEFT BEHIND.

Lo, the blossom to the Bee
Yields not more than thou to me--
Food for love to live upon
When the summer days are gone,
Poorer than they come, to find
What was sweetest, left behind.



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