Ode to Clifey, Lokking et el - Mayflies last longer5 Jan 2020 18:26
In shoals the hours their constant numbers bring
Like insects waking to th' advancing spring;
Which take their rise from grubs obscene that lie
In shallow pools, or thence ascend the sky:
Such are these base ephemeras, so born
To die before the next revolving morn.
—?George Crabbe, "The Newspaper", 1785