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Poem by John Bannister Tabb


The Bee and the Blossoms


  "Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright,
    The livelong summer day?"
  "Alas! we labour all the night
    For what thou takest away."



John Bannister Tabb


John Bannister Tabb's other poems:
  1. Bicycles! Tricycles!
  2. The Sun
  3. The Pleiads
  4. A Legacy
  5. An Insectarian


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