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...flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ; And in it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty, And with my angle, upon them The all of treachery 1 ever learn'd, industriously to try. Such streams Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show, The Iberian Tagus,...

...stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And m it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty: And wich my angle upon them, The all of treachery ' I ever learnt, industriously to try.' ' What an angler I what an angle I what an angel in this rnde world ! Dexterous ¡is he was with his...

...to lie, And view thy silver stream THE PIKE. 359 When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty, And with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learn' d, industriously to try ! " The whole air seems vocal, for there is a brisk wind, and Nature...

...flowery banks to lie, And view thy silvery stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty. And with my angle upon them, The all of treachery, I ever learned, industriously to try ! So sang the enthusiastic disciple of the " Father of all Anglers,"...

...flower)' banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty ; And with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learn'd, industriously to try ! Such streams Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show ; The Iberian Tagus, or...

...flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry Playing at liberty, And, with my angle, upon them, The all of treachery, 1 ever learned industriously to try ! Such streams Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show, The Iberian Tugus,...

...And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ! And in it all thy wanton fry, ['laying at liberty ; And with my angle, upon them The all of treachery I ever learn'd, industriously to try ! Such streams Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show ; The Iberian Tagus, or...

...flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam ' And in it all thy wanton fry, Playing at liberty; And with my angle, upon them The Iberian Tagus, or Ligurian Po, The Maese, the Danube, and the Rhine, Are puddle water all compared...

...flowery banks to lie, And view thy silver stream, When gilded by a summer's beam, And in it all thy wanton fry Playing at liberty ; And, with my angle upon them, The all of treachery I ever learned industriously to try. VII. Such streams, Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show, The Iberian Tagus,...