With indolent lovers of change,

Who, keeping the body at ease in its place,

Give fancy permission to range.

He dreamed that he saw, what he could but despise,

The swarm from a neighboring hive;

Which, having come out for their winter supplies,

Had made the whole garden alive.

He looked with disgust, as the proud often do,

On the diligent movements of those,

Who, keeping both present and future in view,