381    “As to temper the Jubjub’s a desperate bird,
382        Since it lives in perpetual passion:
383    Its taste in costume is entirely absurd —
384        It is ages ahead of the fashion:

385    “But it knows any friend it has met once before:
386        It never will look at a bribe:
387    And in charity-meetings it stands at the door,
388        And collects — though it does not subscribe.

As for "you cannot bribe time", Lewis Carroll also had an issue with time. I think that the Jubjub bird in The Hunting of the Snark stands for a clock or a chronometer.

By the way, to me time neither is an enemy nor a friend. There is no life without time.