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 | Poems on Affairs of State |  |
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Fab. XXII. Of the Bear and the Bees.
Cold
Muscovy (as story tells)
Fam'd is for store of Bears;
That it in Honey too excels,
From the same Books appears.
There's scarce a hollow Tree that grows,
When cut, but Honey from it flows.
A plundering Bear about did roam,
To many a hollow Oak he troop'd,
Greedy he was, oft chang'd his home,
As oft the pillag'd Trees he scoop'd:
The Witless Bees saw him devour
Their Summers toils, and Winter-store;
Call'd it perhaps Protecting too,
Lest other Beasts the like should do,
Fam'd is for store of Bears;
That it in Honey too excels,
From the same Books appears.
There's scarce a hollow Tree that grows,
When cut, but Honey from it flows.
A plundering Bear about did roam,
To many a hollow Oak he troop'd,
Greedy he was, oft chang'd his home,
As oft the pillag'd Trees he scoop'd:
The Witless Bees saw him devour
Their Summers toils, and Winter-store;
Call'd it perhaps Protecting too,
Lest other Beasts the like should do,
And seem'd to be content.
At length when he enlarg'd his rounds,
(For Rapine scarce knows any bounds)
At length when he enlarg'd his rounds,
(For Rapine scarce knows any bounds)
To a Farm-house he went.
The Bear his wonted raving drives,
To run a muck at all the Hives.
The Bees who had with patience born
The rifling of the Forest round;
Enrag'd, their All was from them torn,
And that their last retreat he found;
With Indignation rose in swarms,
With one consent all flew to Arms,
The Bear his wonted raving drives,
To run a muck at all the Hives.
The Bees who had with patience born
The rifling of the Forest round;
Enrag'd, their All was from them torn,
And that their last retreat he found;
With Indignation rose in swarms,
With one consent all flew to Arms,
And all assail'd the Bear:
In numerous clusters round they hung;
Never was prowling Beast so stung,
In numerous clusters round they hung;
Never was prowling Beast so stung,
As he was every where.
Vast Numbers gor'd his tender Snout,
Some his two shining Favourite Eyes:
He rages, storms, and cuffs about,
Both mad and blind to shun them trys:
Among the rest there's none attack'd him more
Than e'en those Drones who snack'd with him before.
Vast Numbers gor'd his tender Snout,
Some his two shining Favourite Eyes:
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Both mad and blind to shun them trys:
Among the rest there's none attack'd him more
Than e'en those Drones who snack'd with him before.
In vain for Aid he roars and bawls.
In vain his kindred Cubs he calls;
The Floods and Woods that interpose,
Keep all things from him but his Foes.
Till torn, and bloody, thro the Bogs he flys,
And by those Insects he cou'd once despise,
Raving, and venom'd, for his Rapine dies.
Whoever D 'Alva like essays
In vain his kindred Cubs he calls;
The Floods and Woods that interpose,
Keep all things from him but his Foes.
Till torn, and bloody, thro the Bogs he flys,
And by those Insects he cou'd once despise,
Raving, and venom'd, for his Rapine dies.
To use oppressing Means and Ways
Will find the Consequence but bad;
Oppression all things overrules,
Not only raises swarms of Fools,
But makes a wise Man mad.
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