COLLECTION

OF

BRITISH AUTHORS.

VOL. CCXIV.

THE LILY AND THE BEE BY SAMUEL WARREN, F. R. S.

IN ONE VOLUME.

HUNC CIRCUM INNUMERÆ GENTES POPULIQUE VOLABANT, AC, VELUTI IN PRATIS, UBI APES ESTATE SERENA FLORIBUS INSIDUNT VARIIS, ET CANDIDA CIRCUM

LILIA FUNDUNTUR, STREPIT OMNIS MURMURE CAMPUS. ENEID. VI. 706-710.

THE

LILY AND THE BEE

AN APOLOGUE OF

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

BY

SAMUEL WARREN, F. R. S.

COPYRIGHT EDITION.

LEIPZIG

BERNH. TAUCHNITZ JUN.

1851.

PREFACE.

IN the South Transept of the Crystal Palace, already vanishing from before our eyes, may be seen, for a little while longer, twin figures of the youthful Alfred the Great and his Mother; who is giving him the Book of Saxon poetry, which she had promised to him, among her sons, who should soonest learn to read it. Historians record that Alfred was passionately fond of the Saxon poems, listening to them eagerly by day, and by night;