THE SWARM 69 



then, in one sustained and impetuous flight that this time 

 knows no obstacle, it steers its straight course, over hedges 

 and cornfields, over haystack and lake, over river and village, 

 to its determined and always distant goal. It is rarely indeed 

 that this second stage can be followed by man. The swarm 

 returns to nature, and we lose the track of its destiny. 



