You Must Tell the Bees - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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You Must Tell the Bees

             

The royal beekeeper…has informed the hives kept in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House of the Queen’s death.

 

-U. K. Daily Mail

 

But of course someone must tell the bees

Those wing’ed messengers among the realms

Who pass along the news of marryings and buryings

According to their proper place in the order of being

 

(or of bee-ing)

 

But of course someone must tell the bees

For their own health and ours they mourn the loss

Of master and mistress, and then welcome the new

With blessings of health and honey and blooms

 

But of course someone must tell the bees -

And they want to hear these things from you, if you please!