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  • From: "Mary Lou Bethune" <marylou909 AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: "bees" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] merry christmas
  • Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:35:14 -0500

 

 

The Bee Carol
Carol Ann Duffy

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 bee

 



  • [ocba] merry christmas, Mary Lou Bethune, 12/18/2010

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