Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday,

Why fret about them if To-day be sweet!

Rabbi ben Ezra says:

... Note that Potter’s wheel.

That metaphor!

and proceeds:

Thou, to whom fools propound,

When the wine makes its round,

“Since life fleets, all is change; the Past gone, seize To-day!”

Fool! all that is, at all,