The bee goes out, and honey home doth bring, <br />And some who seek that honey find a sting. <br />Now would'st thou have the honey, and be free <br />From stinging, in the first place kill the bee. <br /> <br />Comparison. <br /> <br />This bee an emblem truly is of sin, <br />Whose sweet, unto a many, death hath been. <br />Now would'st have sweet from sin and yet not die, <br />Do thou it, in the first place, mortify.<br /><br />John Bunyan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-the-bee/
