“In February, if the days be clear,
The waking bee, still drowsy on the wing,
Will sense the opening of another year
And blunder out to seek another spring.”

— Vita Sackville-West

"Bee-Master", p. 40
The Land (1926)

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English writer and gardener 1892–1962

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