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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;
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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