The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three.
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The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three.
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1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.
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Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.
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