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of one of the table-tops shows the carved lettering. |
- The poem reads:
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The pedigree of Honey
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Does not concern the Bee,
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Nor Lineage of Ecstasy
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Delay the Butterfly
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On spangled journeys to the peak
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Or some perceiveless thing-
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The right of way to Tripoli
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A more essential thing.
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