118 POETICAL NOTICES OF IT. 



■ " As they pass'd by 



The angels paused, and saints that lay reposed 

 In bowers of Paradise, upraised their heads 

 To list the passing music, for it went 

 Swift as the wild bee's note, that on the wing- 

 Booms like unbodied voice along the gale." 



In the sweet and artless poem, by "Wilson, of "Bessie 

 Bell and Mary Gray," it is thus noticed : — 



"And from the hidden flowers, a song 

 Of bees in a happy multitude, 

 AU busy in that solitude." 



Milton, in his "Penseroso," has connected the hum 

 of the bee with the murmuring of the waters : — 



Hide me from day's garish eye. 

 While the bee with honied thigh. 

 That at her flowery work doth sing, 

 And the waters mui-muring, 

 With such concert as they keep, 

 Entice the dewy-feather'd sleep." 



In the enumeration of the " melodies of morn," in 

 Beattie's " Minstrel," the picturesque image of 



" The wild brook babbling down the mountain side," 



does not impart greater pleasure to the mind, than 

 the more humble objects in another line, — 



"The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love." 



In one of Byron's stanzas, in which the poet has 

 grouped together a collection of pleasing objects and 

 of simple sounds, which neither in beauty nor variety 



