39 2 AN ANGLER'S RAMBLES 



The following lines are intended as a companion sonnet to 

 that on page 213 : 



SONNET. IRREGULAR. 



ANOTHER gathering from the days gone by ! 

 Another re-assembling by the stream 

 Of dear old forms a grand fraternity ! 

 What noble presences invest my dream ! 

 Parents of deeds renowning and renown' d 

 The wrestlers that in art and song o'ercame, 

 And help'd to raise our country to its fame ! 

 The muse of memory stands on hallow'd ground, 

 And in performance of a solemn rite, 

 When to the trysting-place of old regard, 

 Which cons the river in its varied flight, 

 (A wooded knoll with undergrowth of sward,) 

 She summons round her all the shades of worth 

 Companions in the sport which lightens toil 

 The hundred-gifted champions of the North, 

 Who with their increment of boisterous health 

 Drawn from unstinted use of heaven's pure air, 

 Heighten'd the lustre of the midnight oil, 

 And gave to life new thoughts and fancies rare 

 Standard accessions to our famed book wealth ! 



REQUIREMENTS OF TWEED. 



IRRESPECTIVE of some alteration in the Tweed Salmon Fisheries 

 Acts, which shall better provide for the safety of the parr- stock 

 belonging to our Border rivers, throughout the year, there are 

 other desiderata in regard to them which cannot be too vigorously 

 pressed upon the attention both of the Tweed Commissioners and 



