havens; there are others laying deep the foundation of a

theatre, and hewing from the rocks enormous columns, 35

the lofty ornaments of a stage that is to be. Such are the

toils that keep the commonwealth of bees[95] at work

in the sun among the flowery meads when summer is

new, what time they lead out the nation’s hope, the young

now grown, or mass together honey, clear and flowing, and

strain the cells to bursting with its nectarous sweets, or

relieve those who are coming in of their burdens, or collect

a troop and expel from their stalls the drones, that lazy, 5