"Methinks I hear," &c.
remind one a little of Cowley's "Anacreontic to the Grasshopper?"
"To thee of all things upon earth,
Life is no longer than thy mirth.
Happy insect, happy thou,
_Dost neither age nor winter know_.
But when thou'st drunk, and danc'd, and sung
Thy fill, the flowery leaves among
(Voluptuous and wise withal, Epicurean animal!)
Sated with thy summer feast
Thou retir'st to endless rest."
or the following lines
"Their raptures now that wildly flow,
_No yesterday nor morrow know_;
Tis man alone that joy descries
With forward, and reverted eyes."
Gray's _Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude_.