Animula, vagula, blandula

Hospes, comesque corporis

Quæ nunc abibis in loca

Pallidula, rigida, nudula?

Nec ut soles dabis joca.

These lines are thus happily imitated by Prior—

Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing,

Must we no longer live together?

And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,

To take thy flight thou know’st not whither?