The Sting

With great stealth and smoke
approach our dome. For if not,
a flame, dry and burning, a dazzling
destruction, only
momentary,
will greet you.

You, who threaten, let
this pin-prick, this red
fever-bite, be a warning.
In our saracen tunnels,
we hold our own, asking
nothing.

by Jeffery Beam , "The Sting", from The Life of the Bee, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Lee Hoiby (1926-) , "The Sting", 2001 [voice, violoncello, and piano], from The Life of the Bee, no. 4.

Date added to the website: 2009-10-18.

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