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Established in 1861, at Washington, by the late Samuel Wagner. 



THE .DEAD BEE. 



"Where honeysuckles scent the way, 

 I heard thee humming yesterday ; 

 Thy little life was not in vain, 

 It gathered sweets from other's gain, 

 And somewhere in a dainty cell 

 Is stored delicious hydromel. 

 O poet ! in thy calm retreat, 

 From joy and grief extracting sweet, 

 Some day thy fancy's wings must fold 

 And thou lie motionless and cold. 

 Perhaps thy garnered honey then. 

 May be the food of living men." 



Scribner's Monthly. 



YOLTJMB IX! V.— 18 79. 



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