THE SWAR .M 



again to see if the queen be read;/, to 

 excite their sisters, to beg-uile the tedium 

 of waiting. They tly much higher than 

 is their wont, and the leaves of the 

 mighty trees round about all quiver re- 

 sponsive. They have left trouble behind, 

 and care. They no longer are m.eddling 

 and fierce, aggressive, suspicious, untam- 

 able, angry. .Man — the unknov.-n master 

 whose sv.-ay they ne\-er acknov.dedge, v,-ho 

 can subdue them only by conform- 

 ing to their ever/ lav.-, to their habits 

 of labour, and follovvdng step by step 

 the path that is traced in their life 

 by an intellect nothing can thwan 

 or turn from its purpose, by a spirit 

 v/hose aim is always the good of the 

 morrow — on this day man can approach 



