Madison Rabbit in "Ryder Rabbit Almost Decides To Return Home"

 And still he hated to give in 
When there was still so much to see. "Persistence, I was taught, will win,  
And so I will persist," said he.
And he did persist day after day, until at last he felt that he really must give it up. He had stretched out wearily on a tiny sunning-bank in the farthest corner of the Old Pasture, and had just about made up his mind that he would go back that very night to the dear Old Briar-patch on the Green Meadows, when a tiny rustle behind him made him jump to his feet with his heart in his mouth.