96 TROUTING FLIES. 



when the heart's readiness is linked with the hand's 

 energy, the humour of the fish with the inviting and 

 cheerful disposition of wind and water, sun and land- 

 scape; when bank and meadow lie starred and ena- 

 melled with flowers ; when the trill of the song-bird 

 issues from every thorn; when all sounds and all 

 prospects are joyous and exhilarating, and the cloud 

 itself sleeping high in the arch of heaven, is as the 

 bannered presence of some benevolent watcher 



" One of the spirits unwithdrawn, 

 That, erst the fall, were charged to minister 

 To the earth's gladness, and continually, 

 Out of their ample and unfailing horns, 

 To pre-endow the advancing tracks of men." 



