One blessing from the suppression of the old English translation of the Roman Missal and the introduction of the new, was the return of the bees to the Exsultet. The Exsultet, since the 9th century sung during the Easter Vigil, is a poem packed with images, including of bees. Elements of the text go back to St Ambrose of Milan (d 397). Did Ambrose contribute the bee imagery? When he was a baby, the legend goes, bees flew in and out of his mouth, presaging his future eloquence. The bees still buzzed in the Latin Exsultet text, but the coarse sensibilities of the 60s and 70s eliminated them in English. Having mainly recovered from that madness, the 2011 English version properly restored them.