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In Egypt and the East: Persians

In the rose gardens of Persia, we miss the murmur of the bee as we miss it in Arabia. In Saadi's "Gulistan," or "Rose Garden," where from the name one anticipates all delight of flower and insect life, one finds the roses are rather ornaments of the mind, and the bee does not appear among these dignified blossoms excepting as an instrument to point a moral, as for instance : - "A learned man without practice is a bee without honey."

And again, - "Of honey hath the sire a plenteous store ; But the son 's feverish and must not have more." which, we are told, being interpreted means, "Our Heavenly In Egypt and the East Father has store of blessings; but man needs chastisement rather than indulgence."