From the pages of bee history,
three of my most favorite
Valentines Day Bee Stories:
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From the book,
Myths of Old Greece
By William Adams, 1900
Cupid and the Bee.
Cupid once upon a bed
Of roses laid his weary head;
Luckless urchin, not to see
Within the leaves a slumbering bee!
The bee awak'd—with anger wild
The bee awak'd, and stung the child.
Loud and piteous are his cries;
To Venus quick he runs, he flies;
"Oh mother!—I am wounded through—
I die with pain—in sooth I do!
Stung by some little angry thing,
Some serpent on a tiny wing—
A bee it was—for once, I know
I heard a rustic call it so."
Thus he spoke, and she the while
Heard him with a soothing smile;
Then said, "My infant, if so much
Thou feel the little wild-bee's touch,
How must the heart, ah, Cupid! be,
The hapless heart that's stung by thee!"
-Thomas Moore.
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Alton Telegraph
Saturday, January 29, 1842 Alton, Illinois
Married —at Geneva, Vt., Mr. J. D. Bee,
to Miss Martha Ann Flower.
Well hath this little busy bee,
Improved life's shining hour.
He gathers honey now all day,
From one sweet chosen flower.
And from this match, if Heaven please,
He'll raise a swarm of little bees.
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Hagerstown Mail
Friday, December 29, 1837 Hagers-Town, Maryland
Strange Incident. -A young lady
in Missouri was sleeping one
morning in her bed, when a bee,
more industrious than she, came
buzzing into her room in quest of honey.
Spying her ruby lips, it alighted, no
doubt mistaking them for a rose.
The buzzing of his little wings awoke
the fair one, who in an instant struck
the honey searching insect with her
hand, and received in return a sting
on her lip. She went with her swollen
lip to a young man who happened
to be near, and begged him to extract
the sting. He set his head to
work to devise a plan to effect her
purpose; and finally concluded that
the only way was, to suck it out! He
proposed the plan -she agreed -the
sting was extracted; but it seems it
went to the young man's heart, for he
kept trying to extract bee stings from
her lips, till they were summoned by
old Cupid to, appear at Hymen's
holy altar! -Tennessee paper
Best Wishes,
Joe
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