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The Book of Odes · 1 passage
The blue flies buzz upon the wing, From fence to fence they wander; O happy King! O courteous King! Give heed to no man's slander. The noisy blue flies rumble round, Upon the gum-trees lighting; A tongue of evil hath no bound, And sets the realm a-fighting. The clumsy blue flies buzzing round Upon the hazels blunder; O cursèd tongue that knows no bound, And sets us two asunder.
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file cfu/boo/boo09.htm.
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