“My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
A Pastoral, part II, "Hope".
“Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.”
"Bee-Master", p. 40
The Land (1926)
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