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serting, skulking privates. No, tliey are all loyal to tlieir qncen. 

 For her safety they are all ready to hazard their own lives in the 

 breach ; all willing to leave their own proper work to become 

 soldiers when war is in the camp ; and, rather than seek exemp- 

 tions from military duty, to die honorably and gloriously on the 

 field of battle. How different is it with ?i.s at the present day ! 

 Well may we seek and learn lessons of loyalty from the little bee, 

 of which one has well and not very untruthfully versed. 



"Hut if intestive broils alarm the hive, 



(For two pretenders oU for empire .strive,) 



The vulgar in divijcd factions jar, 



And murmuririgjounds proclaim the civil war. 



Infl.inied witli ire, and tumbling witli disdain, 



Scarce can their limbs thiir mighty souls contain, 



With shouts the coward's courage they excite. 



And martial clangors call them out to fight ; 



WitQ hoarse alarms theliollow camp rebounds, 



Thai imitates the trumpefs angry sounds ; 



Then to their common standard they rep.iir, 



Tlie nimble liorsemen scour the fields of air. 



In form of battle drr.wn. they issue forth, 



And every linight is prcud to proTe liis wortli. 



I'ress'd for th(ir country's honor, and their kings 



On their shaip beaks they wlict their pointed stings ; 



And exercise their arms, and tremble with their wings." 



