The Life of the Bee 



road, where the aerial ways converge and 

 divide that the busy and tuneful bearers 

 of all country perfumes unceasingly travel 

 from dawn unto dusk. One heard the 

 musical voice of the garden, whose love- 

 liest hours revealed their rejoicing soul 

 and sang of their gladness. One came 

 hither, to the school of the bees, to be 

 taught the preoccupations of all-powerful 

 nature, the harmonious concord of the 

 three kingdoms, the indefatigable organi- 

 sation of life, and the lesson of ardent and 

 disinterested work; and another lesson 

 too, with a moral as good, that the heroic 

 workers taught there, and emphasised, as 

 it were, with the fiery darts of their 

 myriad wings, was to appreciate the 

 somewhat vague savour of leisure, to 

 enjoy the almost unspeakable delights 

 of those immaculate days that revolved 

 on themselves in the fields of space, 

 forming merely a transparent globe, as 



