Georgic

 1    I|           trial serves for thrifty bees;-~Such are my themes.~O
 2   II|           gravel scarce serves the bees~With lowly cassias and with
 3   II|           Sped down the Padus, and bees house their swarms~In rotten
 4   IV|          his call.~First find your bees a settled sure abode, ~Where
 5   IV|      Wasting all substance, or the bees themselves~Strike flying,
 6   IV|        heat resolves and thaws,~To bees alike disastrous; not for
 7   IV|         too with earliest brooding bees~And their full swarms o’
 8   IV|        Great Jove himself upon the bees bestowed,~The boon for which,
 9   IV|         their breasts~Goads on the bees, that haunt old Cecrops’
10   IV|           law of life, too, by the bees obeyed,~Will move thy wonder,
11   IV|         guide, ~Some say that unto bees a share is given~Of the
12   IV| slaughtered bullocks oft has borne~Bees from corruption. I will
13   IV|           she wove,~Wrought on thy bees, alas! this deadly bane.~
14   IV|       dissolution, hark! there hum~Bees from the belly; the rent