THE SWARM 



that has been so laboriously gathered. 

 And poverty, little by little, will steal 

 into the city ; the population will dwindle: 

 and the wretched inhabitants soon will 

 perish of distress and despair, though 

 every rlower of summer burst into bloom 

 before them. 



But let the queen be restored before 

 her loss has become an accomplished, 

 irremediable fact, before the bees have 

 grown too profoundly demoralised, — for 

 in this they resemble men : a prolonged 

 regret, or miisfortune, v.-ill impair their 

 intellect and degrade their character, — let 

 her be restored but a fev; hours later, 

 thev v;ill receive her vdth extraordinir.', 

 pathetic Vv-e!come. They will fiock eagerly 

 round her; excited groups will climb over 



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