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"The Book of Odes", by L. Cranmer-Byng, [1908],

p. 22

"The Slanderers\"

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 cursd tongue that knows no bound,

And sets us two asunder.