THE TAX-GATHERER.
“And pray, who are you?”Said the violet blueTo the Bee, with surpriseAt his wonderful size,In her eye-glass of dew.“I, madam,” quoth he,“Am a publican Bee,Collecting the taxOf honey and wax.Have you nothing for me?”
“And pray, who are you?”Said the violet blueTo the Bee, with surpriseAt his wonderful size,In her eye-glass of dew.“I, madam,” quoth he,“Am a publican Bee,Collecting the taxOf honey and wax.Have you nothing for me?”
“And pray, who are you?”Said the violet blueTo the Bee, with surpriseAt his wonderful size,In her eye-glass of dew.
“And pray, who are you?”
Said the violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise
At his wonderful size,
In her eye-glass of dew.
“I, madam,” quoth he,“Am a publican Bee,Collecting the taxOf honey and wax.Have you nothing for me?”
“I, madam,” quoth he,
“Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
Of honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me?”
—John B. Tabb.