

THE PRESENT ; OR, THE BAG OF THE BEE..

by Robert Herrick





F LY to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee,

And say thou bring'st this honey bag from me :

When on her lip thou hast thy sweet dew placed,

Mark if her tongue but slyly steal a taste.

If so, we live ; if not, with mournful hum

Toll forth my death ; next, to my burial come.





Source:

Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.

Alfred Pollard, ed.

London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 124.



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