Born from the breath of flowers:
Strange people are they; a mystic race
In life, and food, and dwelling-place!"
As another poet has sung:
"His quidam signis, atque hæc exempla secuti,
Esse Apibus partem Divinæ mentis et haustus
Ætherios dixere."
Mr. Hawker's Legend is to this effect: A Cornish woman, one summer, finding her bees refused to leave their "cloistered home," and "ceased to play around the cottage flowers," concealed a portion of the Holy Eucharist which she obtained at church:
"She bore it to her distant home,
She laid it by the hive