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THE WHITE BEES AND OTHER POEMS THE WHITE BEES I LEGEND   Long ago Apollo called to Aristaeus, youngest       of the shepherds,     Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees."   Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey;       golden, too, the music,     Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.   Happy Aristaeus loitered in the garden, wandered       in the orchard,     Careless and contented, indolent and free;   Lightly took his labour