Does Mr. Saville forget Mr. Herbert Spencer's apologue of the Ephemeron which had never witnessed the change of a child into a man?"
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Perhaps the perishing Ephemeron enjoys a longer life than the tortoise.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
The scent was so strong that the Ephemeron was almost intoxicated by it.
"The Sand-Hills of Jutland"
Hans Christian Andersen