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  • From: david gould <jmorton44 AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [ocba] a bee carol for your girls
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:39:26 -0500


The Bee Carol 
by Carol Ann Duffy

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Silently on Christmas Eve,
the turn of midnight’s key;
all the garden locked in ice —
a silver frieze —
except the winter cluster of the bees.
Flightless now and shivering,
around their Queen they cling;
every bee a gift of heat;
she will not freeze
within the winter cluster of the bees.
Bring me for my Christmas gift
a single golden jar;
let me taste the sweetness there,
but honey leave
to feed the winter cluster of the bees.
Come with me on Christmas Eve
to see the silent hive —
trembling stars cloistered above —
and then believe,
bless the winter cluster of the bees.

and a very Merry Christmas to you and your hives . . .
Dave




  • [ocba] a bee carol for your girls, david gould, 12/20/2015

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