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The swarthy bee is a buccaneer, / A burly velveted rover, / Who loves the booming wind in his ear / As he sails the seas of clover.
A waif of the goblin pirate crew, / With not a soul to deplore him, / He steers for the open verge of blue / With the filmy world before him.