THE CAPTIVE BUMBLE-BEE. In a milk-white prison, with only one Round window opening to the sun, Raving and raging in vain despair Like a wounded lion in his lair, I have a captive. He cant get out, For I hold the door with my fingers stout. But how can you hold this captive wild, You, who are only a… … By the garden-walk I chanced to see In a foxglove flower a bumble-bee; And when he was fairly sipping the honey, I fastened him into this prison funny. It8 long and hollow and flat, you see,— The very jail for a bumble-bee! Yes, it is a pity to shut him up,Though his jail is a lovely foxglove…
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