<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510914" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bees and Flies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Farmer of the Augustan Age<br>Perused in Virgil's golden page<br>The story of the secret won<br>From Proteus by Cyrene's son--<br>How the dank sea-god showed the swain<br>Means to restore his hives again.<br>More briefly, how a slaughtered bull<br>Breeds honey by the bellyful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The egregious rustic put to death<br>A bull by stopping of its breath,<br>Disposed the carcass in a shed<br>With fragrant herbs and branches spread,<br>And, having well performed the charm,<br>Sat down to wait the promised swarm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor waited long. The God of Day<br>Impartial, quickening with his ray<br>Evil and good alike, beheld<br>The carcass--and the carcass swelled.<br>Big with new birth the belly heaves<br>Beneath its screen of scented leaves.<br>Past any doubt, the bull conceives!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The farmer bids men bring more hives<br>To house the profit that arrives;<br>Prepares on pan and key and kettle,<br>Sweet music that shall make 'em settle;<br>But when to crown the work he goes,<br>Gods! What a stink salutes his nose!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are the honest toilers? Where<br>The gravid mistress of their care?<br>A busy scene, indeed, he sees,<br>But not a sign or sound of bees.<br>Worms of the riper grave unhid<br>By any kindly coffin-lid,<br>Obscene and shameless to the light,<br>Seethe in insatiate appetite,<br>Through putrid offal, while above<br>The hissing blow-fly seeks his love,<br>Whose offspring, supping where they supt,<br>Consume corruption twice corrupt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510914" data-title="The Bees and Flies de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="A Farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son-- How the dank sea-god showed the swain Means to restore his hives again. More briefly, how a slaughtered bull Breeds honey by th..."></div> </div> </div>

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