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,