The Swarm 
total obscurity, guiding themselves with 
their many-faceted eyes, or with their 
antenne perhaps, the seat, it would seem, 
of an unknown sense that fathoms and 
measures the darkness. 
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They are not without prescience, there- 
fore, of what is to befall them on this the 
most dangerous day of all their existence. 
Absorbed by the cares, the prodigious perils 
of this mighty adventure, they will have no 
time now to visit the gardens and meadows ; 
and to-morrow, and after to-morrow, it may 
happen that rain may fall, or there may be 
wind; that their wings may be frozen or 
the flowers refuse to open. Famine and 
death would await them were it not for 
this foresight of theirs. None would come 
to their help, nor would they seek help of 
any. For one city knows not the other, 
and assistance never is given. And even 
though the apiarist deposit the hive in which 
he has gathered the old queen and her 
attendant cluster of bees by the side of the 
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