Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 832
some traces of her reign behind! Georgics II. Warton. EJVIPLOYMEJNTp OF THE BEE. (By Virgil.) If all things with great we may compare,Such are the bees, and such their busy care:Studious of honey, each in his degree,The youthful swain, the grave, experienced bee;That in the field; this in affairs… … VIRG{L AND HOKACE. The laboring youth, and heavy laden home.Plains, meads, and orchards, all the day he plies, 8l4 LITERATURE. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs: He spoils the saftVon flowers, he sips the blues Of violets, wilding blooms, and willow dews. Their toil is common, common is…
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