The Life of the Bee 
fashion things may be reflected in the 
6,000 or 7,000 facets of their lateral eyes 
and the triple cyclopean eye on their brow, 
— but as it would seem to us, were we of 
their stature. From the height of a dome 
more colossal than that of St. Peter’s at 
Rome waxen walls descend to the ground, 
balanced in the void and the darkness; 
gigantic and manifold, vertical and parallel 
geometric constructions, to which, for rela- 
tive precision, audacity, and vastness, no 
human structure is comparable. Each of 
these walls, whose substance still is immac- 
ulate and fragrant, of virginal, silvery fresh- 
ness, contains thousands of cells, that are 
stored with provisions sufficient to feed the 
whole people for several weeks. Here, 
lodged in transparent cells, are the pollens, 
love-ferment of every flower of spring, 
making brilliant splashes of red and yellow, 
of black and mauve. Close by, in twenty 
thousand . reservoirs, sealed with a seal 
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