The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CCXCII.
[Go to the bee!—and thence bring home]
ESTO PERPETUA.
Go to the bee!—and thence bring home,
(Worth all the treasures of her comb,)
An antidote against rash strife:
She, when her angry flight she wings,
But once, and at her peril stings;—
But gathers honey all her life!
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