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This is Western,
written many years ago

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when I was living
in Salt Lake and had

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some very good friends in
the Church of the Latter day

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Saints.

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It's called "The Swarming Bees."

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I remember the evening that
uncle Willie's bees swarmed

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in the neighbor's yard high
up in an old box elder tree,

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the graveyard cluster hung.

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Swelled with so
many thousand bees,

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it almost broke the branch.

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And Uncle Willie sent his
boy, Peter up the trunk

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with a garbage pail, but
of course, the pale fell

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and the whole big
cluster came down right

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on top of Uncle Willie's head.

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But he stood still
and never got a sting,

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though he was black with bees.

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So for the next two weeks,
he was quoting Horace,

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Howell Wolfe won't
bite so virtuous a man.

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And after he'd coaxed and
smoked the bees into a new hive,

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he sat out on the front
porch with his shoes

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off and drank three
high balls down.

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One for the bees,
and one for the dead

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departed soul of
President Heber Grant,

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and one to the health of
that dauntless warrior

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general principles.

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This all happened
just when the Russians

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were blasting Berlin
and for a long time

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that livid cluster
hung in my mind.

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The Black, and burned,
and crawling death's head

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of my youth old Europe.

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