The messenger

Bee! tell me whence do you come?

Ten fields away, twenty perhaps,

Have heard your hum.

If you are from the north, you may

Have passed my mother's roof of straw

Upon your way.

If you came from the south, you should

Have seen another cottage just

Inside the wood.

And should you go back that way, please

Carry a message to the house

Among the trees.

Say -- I will wait her at the rock

Beside the stream, this very night

At eight o'clock.

And ask your queen when you get home

To send my queen the present of

A honeycomb.