Paraphrases. II. Telling the Bees by Andrew Lang. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

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

Paraphrases. II. Telling the Bees

Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

Anonymous


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.	5
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.