Mocking the noontide blaze? I am at once
The grasshopper: to abhor the mother'd oil?
I am the very dust to lick it up
And blind me to its use: to walk a-mornings
Barefoot? the crane: to sleep no wink? the bat. —Bailey.
The same.
In bearing hunger and in eating nothing,
I can assure you, you may reckon me
A Tithymallus or Philippides;
In drinking water I'm a very frog;