Unmeant Service
The bees which all day long with tireless care,
In golden deeps of bloomy cups and bells,
Seek bread and honey for their mystic cells-
Tiny co-workers with the enamored Air-
From flower to flower, with aid unweeting, bear
Yearnings which Buds blush into Blooms to tell-
Their love's fruition guarded long and well
By the great Mother in her secret lair;
So works our human o'er its selfish will;
Seeking the honey of its own desire
It doth God service faithfully and still;
Around his altar feeds the eternal fire
From its low passions, like the carrier Bee
That gives the flower he robs, an immortality.
- Title
- Unmeant Service
- Alternative Title
- The bees which all day long with tireless care
- Date
- 1849 (latest)
- Spatial Coverage
- The Maniac and Other Poems
- Bibliographic Citation
- George Shepard Burleigh, The Maniac: and Other Poems. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1849, p. 236
- M 236
- Subject
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Nature
Philosophy
Transcendentalism
- Media
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Unmeant Service
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