Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Andrew Lang 1844–1912

Paraphrases. II. Telling the Bees

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NAIADS, and ye pastures cold,

When the bees return with spring,

Tell them that Leucippus old

Perished in his hare-hunting,

Perished on a winter night.

Now no more shall he delight

In the hives he used to tend,

But the valley and the height

Mourn a neighbor and a friend.