Ever "To-morrow" thou dost say;
When will to-morrow's sun arise?
Thus custom ratifies delay;
My faithfulness thou dost despise.
Others are welcomed, whilst to me
"At even come," thou say'st, "not now."
What will life's evening bring to thee?
Old age—a many-wrinkled brow.
Dryden's well-known lines in Aurengzebe embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse:
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay,
To-morrow's falser than the former day.