THE HISTORY OF HONEY
“The History of Honey”—by an aged mandarin,
And I bought it for the pictures of the burnished bees therein.
For the dainty revelations, masquerading up and down,
For the odor of the sandalwood that talked of China-town.
According to the mandarin, the Oriental bees
Were the first to hoard their honey in the mountain cavities.
In the ages of antiquity, each summer afternoon,