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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never kill a fly because<br>I think that what we have of laws<br>To regulate and civilize<br>Our daily life - we owe to flies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Apropos, I'll tell you of Choo, the spouse<br>Of the head of the hunters, Wung;<br>Such a beautiful cave they had for a house,<br>And a brood of a dozen young.<br>And Wung would start by the dawn's red light<br>On the trailing of bird or beast,<br>And crawl back tired on the brink of night<br>With food for another feast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the young would dance in their naked glee,<br>And Choo would fuel the fire;<br>Fur and feather, how good to see,<br>And to gorge to heart's desire!<br>Flesh of rabbit and goose and deer,<br>With fang-like teeth they tore,<br>And laughed with faces a bloody smear,<br>And flung their bones on the floor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But with morning bright the flies would come,<br>Clouding into the cave;<br>You could hardly hear for their noisy hum,<br>They were big and black and brave.<br>Darkling the day with gust of greed<br>They'd swarm in the warm sunrise<br>On the litter of offal and bones to feed -<br>A million or so of flies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now flies were the wife of Wung's despair;<br>They would sting and buzz and bite,<br>And as her only attire was hair<br>She would itch from morn to night:<br>But as one day she scratched her hide,<br>A thought there came to Choo;<br>&quot;If I were to throw the bones outside,<br>The flies would go there too.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That spark in a well-nigh monkey mind,<br>Nay, do not laugh or scorn;<br>For there in the thoughts of Choo you'll find<br>Was the sense of Order born;<br>As she flung the offal far and wide,<br>And the fly-cloud followed fast,<br>Battening on the bones outside<br>The cave was clear at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Wung was pleased when he came at night,<br>For the air was clean and sweet,<br>And the cave-kids danced in the gay firelight,<br>And fed on the new-killed meat;<br>But the children Choo would chide and boss,<br>For her cleanly floor was her pride,<br>And even the baby was taught to toss<br>His bite of a bone outside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the cave crones came and some admired,<br>But others were envious;<br>And they said: &quot;She swanks, she makes us tired<br>With her complex modern fuss.&quot;<br>However, most of the tribe complied,<br>Though tradition dourly dies,<br>And a few Conservatives crossly cried:<br>&quot;We'll keep our bones and our flies.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Reformer Choo was much revered<br>And to all she said: &quot;You see<br>How my hearth is clean and my floor is cleaned,<br>And there ain't no flies on me&quot;...<br>And that was how it all began,<br>Through horror of muck and mess,<br>Even in prehistoric Man,<br>LAW, ORDER and CLEANLINESS'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that is why I never kill<br>A fly, no matter how obscene;<br>For I believe in God's good will:<br>He gave us vermin to make us clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q>
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I think that what we have of laws
To regulate and civilize
Our daily life - we owe to flies.

Apropos, I'll tell you of Choo, the spouse
Of the head of the hunters, Wung;
Such a beautiful cave they had for a house,
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