“Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my honey-making bees,
They left the musk, and the marigolds and the scented faint sweet-peas;
They gather’d in a darkening cloud, and sway’d, and rose to fly;
A blackness on the summer blue, they swept across the sky.
Gaunt and ghastly with gaping wounds—(my soldier son, alas)!
Footsore and faint, the messenger came halting through the grass.
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The Bees of Myddelton Manor
Posted in 1, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
