Pafturage of Bees. 
therefore, inftead of death and extirpation, me- 
rit every encouragement and prefervation ; and 
ought, at leaft in autumn, to be allowed to re- 
_ tain a reafonable fhare of the fruits of their 
own induftry, to preferve them through the 
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And fix’d o’er fulphur: while, not dreaming ill, _ 
‘The happy people in their waxen cells, 
Sat tending public cares, and planning {chemes 
Of temperance, for Winter poor; rejoiced 
To mark, full flowing round, their copious ftores: 
‘Sudden the dark oppreffive fteam afcends ; 
And, uf'd to milder fcents, the tender Face, 
By thoufands, tumble from their honeyed domes, 
Convolv'd, and agonizing in the dutt. 
And was it then for this you roam’d the Spring, 
‘Intent from flower to flower ? for this you toil’d 
Ceafelefs the burning Summer-heats away ? 
For this in Autumn fearch’d the blooming watte, 
Nor loft one funny gleam ? for this fad fate? 
O Man! tyrannic lord! how long, how long, 
Shall proftrate Nature groan beneath your rage, 
Awaiting renovation ? When obliged, 
Muft you deftroy ? Of their ambrofial food 
Can you not borrow ? and, in juft return, 
Afford them fhelter from the wintry winds 3 
Or, as the fharp year pinches, with their own 
Again regale them on fome {miling day ? 
See where the {tony bottom of their town 
Looks defolate, and wild; with here and: there 
A helplefs number, who the ruin’d ftate 
Survive, lamenting, weak, caft out to death. 
