WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees,
And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour;
Others, like wasps on blossomed apple-trees,
Find gall, not honey, in the sweetest flower.
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He comes! the Pharaoh's god! fling wide the door-
Welcome, Osiris! See—thine old prescription
Is honored here; and thou shalt drink once more
With men whose treasured ensign is Egyptian. very good poem
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He comes! the Pharaoh's god! fling wide the door- Welcome, Osiris! See—thine old prescription Is honored here; and thou shalt drink once more With men whose treasured ensign is Egyptian. very good poem