A complete guide to the mystery and management of bees / by William White ; to which is added a practical monthly bee calendar, by James Beesley.

  • White, William, of Shutford.
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete guide to the mystery and management of bees / by William White ; to which is added a practical monthly bee calendar, by James Beesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ah, see where robb’d, and murder’d, in that pit Lies the still heavinG hive ! at eveninG snatch’d. Beneath the cloud of Guilt coneealinG niGht, And fix’d o’er sulphur : while, not dreaminG ill, The happy people, in their waxen cells. Sat tendinG public cares, and planninG schemes Of temperance, for Winter poor ; rejoiced To mark, full flowitiG round, their copious stores. Sudden the dark oppressive steam ascends; And, used to milder scents, the tender race. By thousands, tumble from their honeYed domes. Convolv’d and aGonisinG in the dust. And was it then for this you roam’d the SprinG, Intent from flower to flower ? for this you toil d Ceaseless the buminG Summer-heats awaY ? For this in Autumn search’d the bloominG waste, Nov lost one sunnY Gleam P for this sad fate, O man ! tyrannic lord ! how lonG, how lonG Shall prostrate nature Groan beneath Your raGe, AwaitinG renovation ? When ohliGed, Must you destroy ? Of their ambrosial food Can you not borrow ? and, in Just return. Afford them shelter from the wintry winds; Or, as the sharp Year pinches, with their own AGain reGale them on some smilinG day ? See where the stony bottom of their town Looks desolate and wild ; with here and there A helpless number, who the ruin’d state Survive, lamentinG, weak, cast out to death. Upon the whole, if my directions are understood, my intention is fulfilled; and 1 hope the candid reader will excuse any inaccuracy in lancuaGe or Grammar, not having had the advantage of a Gram- matical education ; and my design being that people, who have suffered, through ignorance of the nature of bees, may, by observing what is here written, make them turn out more to their advantage. W. WHITE.