"The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their mighty honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive."
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"A Summer Night in the Beehive" in Small Tableaux (1868)
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Charles Tennyson Turner
(born Charles Tennyson; 4 July 1808 – 25 April 1879) was an English poet. Born in , he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and the "heart union" with his brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers (1829). Another poet brother was Frederick Tennyson.
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