The Swarm 
amassed. It is as though they were 
prisoners to whom freedom at last had 
been given, who had suddenly been led 
to a land of refreshment and plenty. 
They exult, they cannot contain the joy 
that is in them. They come and go 
aimlessly, —they whose every movement 
has always its precise and useful purpose 
—they depart and return, sally forth once 
again to see if the queen be ready, to 
excite their sisters, to beguile the tedium 
of waiting. They fly much higher than 
is their wont, and the leaves of the 
mighty trees round about all quiver 
responsive. They have left trouble 
behind, and care. They no longer are 
meddling and fierce, aggressive, suspicious, 
untamable, angry. Man—the unknown 
master whose sway they never acknowl- 
edge, who can subdue them only by con- 
forming to their every law, to their habits 
of labour, and following step by step the 
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