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“And pray, who are you?”

Said the violet blue

To the Bee, with surprise

At his wonderful size,

In her eyeglass of dew.

“I, madam,” quoth he,

“Am a publican Bee,

Collecting the tax

Of honey and wax.

Have you nothing for me?”

—Rev. John B. Tabb.