"As swains with smoke, of honey studious, strive From some rock's cleft the swarming bees to drive; Alarmed and trembling, with a murmuring sound, They crowd to all their waxen rooms around; But if the fumes prevail, their wings they ply, And rove uncertain through the various sky."
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Compare: — So when the swain invades, with stifling smoke, The bees close-clustered in a caverned rock, They rise, and, trembling for the endangered state, Inflamed with wrath, with fell revenge and hate, This way, and that, in loud tumultuous swarms, Fly over their waxen town with hoarse alarms; The steams offensive roll the cells around, Their sullen murmurs through the rock resound, While, thickening, through the cleft the smokes arise, And in a length of vapours mount the skies. — The Æneid
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