<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Honey Bee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou born to sip the lake or spring,<br>Or quaff the waters of the stream,<br>Why hither come on vagrant wing?--<br>Does Bacchus tempting seem--<br>Did he, for you, the glass prepare?--<br>Will I admit you to a share?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did storms harrass or foes perplex,<br>Did wasps or king-birds bring dismay--<br>Did wars distress, or labours vex,<br>Or did you miss your way?--<br>A better seat you could not take<br>Than on the margin of this lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Welcome!--I hail you to my glass:<br>All welcome, here, you find;<br>Here let the cloud of trouble pass,<br>Here, be all care resigned.--<br>This fluid never fails to please,<br>And drown the griefs of men or bees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What forced you here, we cannot know,<br>And you will scarcely tell--<br>But cheery we would have you go <br>And bid a glad farewell:<br>On lighter wings we bid you fly,<br>Your dart will now all foes defy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet take not oh! too deep a drink,<br>And in the ocean die;<br>Here bigger bees than you might sink,<br>Even bees full six feet high.<br>Like Pharaoh, then, you would be said<br>To perish in a sea of red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do as you please, your will is mine;<br>Enjoy it without fear--<br>And your grave will be this glass of wine,<br>Your epitaph--a tear--<br>Go, take your seat in Charon's boat,<br>We'll tell the hive, you died afloat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Freneau">Philip Freneau</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478614" data-title="On A Honey Bee de Philip Freneau" data-description="Thou born to sip the lake or spring, Or quaff the waters of the stream, Why hither come on vagrant wing?-- Does Bacchus tempting seem-- Did he, for you, the glass prepare?-- Will I admit you to a share? Did storms harrass or foes perplex, Did was..."></div> </div> </div>

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