Pleafure and Prott of keeping Bees. 9 
induftrious fervants carrying on their work 
with fo much fimplicity, alacrity, and chear- 
fulnefs, and finging fo {weetly ; infomuch that 
they are fit to make me join the concert, and 
fing, 
What's this I hear, makes fuch melodious found ! 
Surely [ve got on fome enchanted ground. 
"Tis Canaan’s infects that I here behold, 
Whofe legs do glitter like the yellow gold. 
The furze and broom in luftre here do fbine, 
Whofe yellow tops regale thofe flocks of mine. 
flere filver fireams in flow’ry valleys glide, 
And rows of willows deck the river's fide : 
Here lambkins play upon the funny braes, 
And fweeteft nectar fmells on clover lees. 
Here are the fields with Nature’s colours dight, 
Grateful to fmell, and pleafant to the fight. 
Retired pleafure foothes and calms the mind ; 
A noify world oft leaves a fting behind. 
- On the contrary, however, fhould the feafon 
go to theotherextreme, and, inftead of fair wea- 
ther, fhould windy, cold, wet, cloudy, and heavy 
weather take place, during fummer, the bees 
will by it be fo much difheartened and difcou- 
raged, that they will lament and mourn, in fo 
, piteous 
