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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

A Merry Bee

Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903)

A GOLDEN bee a-cometh

O’er the mere, glassy mere,

And a merry tale he hummeth

In my ear.

How he seized and kiss’d a blossom

From its true thorny tree,

Pluck’d and placed in Annie’s bosom,

Hums the bee!