The Life of the Bee 
road, where the aerial ways converge and 
divide that the busy and tuneful bearerss 
of all country perfumes unceasingly travel 
from dawn unto dusk. One heard the 
musical voice of the garden, whose love- 
liest hours revealed their rejoicing soul 
and sang of their gladness. One came 
hither, to the school of the bees, to be 
taught the preoccupations of all-powerful 
nature, the harmonious concord of the 
three kingdoms, the indefatigable organi- 
sation of life, and-the lesson of ardent and 
disinterested work; and another lesson 
too, with a moral as good, that the heroic 
workers taught there, and emphasised, as 
it were, with the fiery darts of their 
myriad wings, was to appreciate the 
somewhat vague savour of leisure, to 
enjoy the almost unspeakable delights 
of those immaculate days that revolved 
on themselves in the fields of space, 
forming merely a transparent globe, as 
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