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THE BEES


So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to people kingdom
They have a king and officers a sort:
Where some, like magistrates , correct at home,
Others like merchants, venture trade abroad.
Others, like soldiers armed in their strings,
Make a boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
Which pillage, they, with merry mirth bring home

To the rent royal of their emperor:
Who, busied in their majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold:
The civil citizens kneading up the honey:
The poor mechanic porters crowding gate:
The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.