FL Y-FISHING IN MAINE LAKES. 2 1 7 



and also this, that to excel in the art of fishing with 

 the fly is not, to my mind, the true aim or the 

 highest purpose of the angler, but so to enjoy 

 the sport and your communings with Nature, that 

 in your latest years, when, perchance, " the grass- 

 hopper shall become a burden, and desire shall 

 fail," when the shadows lengthen as the sun de- 

 clines, Memory, that 



" First, best friend that Heaven assigns below, 

 To soothe and soften all the cares we know, 

 Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, 

 When nature fades, and life forgets to charm, 

 Its softest view in magic glass reveals, 

 When o'er the landscape time's meek twilight steals." 



