The bees chose their flowers, the snub kids

Upon hind legs went sportive, or plied,

Nosing, hard at the dugs to be filled;

There was milk, honey, music to make;

Up their branches the little birds billed;

Chirrup, drone, bleat, and buzz ringed the lake.

O shining in sunlight, chief

After water and water's caress,

Was the young bronze orange leaf,

That clung to the trees as a tress,