From the pane to the counter-pane fly back again!
I’d be a bottle-fly, buzzing and blue,
With a Chuny proboscis, and nothing to do,
But to dirty white dimity curtains, and blow
The choicest of meats when the summer days glow!
From Blackwood’s Magazine. May, 1828.
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Parody.
As sung by Robson, in “Masaniello,” a burlesque by Robert Brough.
I’m a shrimp! I’m a shrimp of diminutive size;