Bee

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <SPAN name="THE_BEE"></SPAN> <h2>THE BEE.</h2> <div class="stanza"> <p>Now, Ellen, stop screaming and running away,</p> <p class="i2">And come here and listen to me;</p> <p>Is it true, my dear daughter, I want you to say,</p> <p class="i2">That you're foolishly scared by a bee?</p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p>The bee is as frightened as you are, my dear,</p> <p class="i2">For he can't tell the way to get out;</p> <p>And as for his sting, that you never need fear,</p> <p class="i2">If you do not run crying about.</p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p>If you were to catch him, why, then, I dare say</p> <p class="i2">You'd soon feel his sharp little sting;</p> <p>But if you sit still at your work or your play,</p> <p class="i2">Be sure that no harm he will bring.</p> </div> <div class="stanza"> <p>So wipe off these tears and never again</p> <p class="i2">Give way to so foolish a fright;</p> <p>For if you indulge it 't will cost you much pain</p> <p class="i2">And no one will want you in sight.</p> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />