THE PRESENT ; OR, THE BAG OF THE BEE..
by Robert Herrick


FLY to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee,
And say thou bring'st this honey bag from me :
When on her lip thou hast thy sweet dew placed,
Mark if her tongue but slyly steal a taste.
If so, we live ; if not, with mournful hum
Toll forth my death ; next, to my burial come.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 124.
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