Note 100 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Reading edition
This description is varied with improvements from Dryden, Æneis, vi. 958.
About the boughs an airy nation flew Thick as the humming bees that hunt the golden dew: The winged army roams the field around, The rivers and the rocks remurmer to the sound.—Wakefield.
He was assisted by another passage in Dryden's Flower and Leaf:
Thick as the college of the bees in May, When swarming o'er the dusky fields they fly, Now to the flow'rs, and intercept the sky.