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/ I. First I asked the honeybee, / Busy in the balmy bowers; / Saying, "Sweetheart, tell it me: / Have you seen her, honeybee? / She is cousin to the flowers -- / All the sweetness of the south / In her wild-rose face and mouth. " / But the bee passed silently.
/ II. Then I asked the forest bird, / Warbling by the woodland waters; / Saying, "Dearest, have you heard? / Have you heard her, forest bird? / She is one of music's daughters -- / Never song so sweet by half / As the music of her laugh. " / But the bird said not a word.