“Cupid once upon a bed

Of roses laid his weary head;

Luckless urchin, not to see

Within the leaves a slumbering bee.

The bee awaked—with anger wild

The bee awaked, 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!