AND ANGLING SONGS. I 5 



XLVIII. 



Eden ! from Heaven's vocabulary 

 Chosen by the ear of Harmony, 



At the grand consecration, 

 When the Earth's first deputed lord 

 Named, as instructed by the Word, 



Each wonder of Creation. 



XLIX. 



Of his fair bower, before the Fall, 

 An echo and memorial, 



The promise-word of pardon, 

 That to the listening ear of faith 

 Bears tidings of a conquer'd Death, 



And a celestial garden. 



L. 



Fair names, symbolic of thy life 

 And rural beauty, Royal Fife ! 



In days, alas ! departed ; 

 When all the juices of the soil 

 Were vigorous, and no hand of spoil 



Enslaved them, or diverted. 



LI. 



Changed as they are, I hold in mind 

 Their better days, when, unconfmed, 



They glided through the valleys ; 

 When on their surface lusty trout 

 Gamboll'd, or put to sudden rout 



The minnows on the shallows. 



