They bask like grasshoppers, and chirp as loud:

With oil they never even feast their eyes;

The luxury of stockings they despise,

But bare-foot as the crane still march along,

All night in chorus with the screech-owl's song. —Cumberland.

The same.

For famishment direct, and empty fare,

I am your Tithymallus, your Philippides,

Close pictured to the life: for water-drinking,

Your very frog. To fret, and feed on leeks,