Componist en bassist Esperanza Spalding zette het gedicht Little Fly van William Blake uit 1794 op muziek.

Little Fly/ Thy summer’s play,/My thoughtless hand/Has brush’d away.

Am not I/A fly like thee?/Or art not thou/A man like me?

For I dance/And drink & sing;/Till some blind hand/Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life/And strength & breath;/And the want/Of thought is death;

Then am I/A happy fly,/If I live,/Or if I die.