Cyclic permutation and Poisson brackets

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Consider the cyclic permutation operator $\tau$ defined as $$\tau(x_1,...,x_N)=(x_2,...,x_N,x_1)$$ and denote

$$ (\tau f) (x,y) = f(\tau x,\tau y).$$

A cyclically symmetric function is a function $F$ such that $\tau F=F$.

For the Poisson bracket between two cyclically symmetric function we have

$$\sum_{s,s'} \{\tau^s f, \tau^{s'} g \} = \sum_s \tau^s\big(\sum_{s'} \{f,\tau^{s'}g\} \big).$$

I can't figure out the last equality, that is: when do I exploit the cyclically symmetric property? How the partial derivatives change with these permutation?