Taught you with better grace to fly?

I cannot see that both together

Have alter’d you a single feather:

Then tell not us of where you’ve been,

Of what you’ve done, or what you’ve seen;

While you and all your rambling pack

Cuckoos go out, Cuckoos come back.”

Fable II.
The Ant and the Grasshopper.

’Twas that bleak season of the year,