Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Southern States: St. Simon’s Island, Ga. | | The Bees of St. Simon’s | | John Henry Hopkins |
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THERE lies, far in the bosom of the seas, | |
| An island fair: | |
| All summer long the patient little bees | |
| Are busy there. | |
| The honey which they gather in their round, | 5 |
| Buzzing from flower to flower, | |
| They hoard in a quaint beehive they have found | |
| In the old church tower. * * * * * | |
| Like Jonathan, when fainting he did roam | |
| The hungry waste, | 10 |
| How was he quickened when a honeycomb | |
| He did but taste! | |
| So to those weary laborers on lone shores, | |
| This humble hive supplies | |
| The luscious droppings of its annual stores | 15 |
| To light their eyes. * * * * * | | | | |
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