668 LITERATURE OF SEA AND RIl ER FISHING. 



" Some sylvan stream, 



Where shade and gleam 

 Are blended with each other, 



Below whose bank 



The lilies rank 

 All humbler flowers ensmother. 



" Where cushats coo 



And ringdoves woo 

 The shining channel over, 



From leafy larch 



Or birchen arch 

 Their unmolested cover. 



" There daily met, 



No dark regret 

 Shall cloud our noon of pleasure ; 



Well carry rule 



O'er stream and pool, 

 And none to claim a measure. 



" With tackless care 



On chosen hair, 

 March fly and minnow tender, 



We shall invite 



The scaly wight 

 To eye them and surrender. 



" And when out-worn 



We'll seek some thorn 

 With shadow old and ample 



The natural ground, 



Moss laid around, 

 An angler's resting temple ! " 



In Remarks on Shooting, in Verse, by W. Watt, in 1839, 

 we have a poem of some length on "Trolling." He seems 

 to be one of that class of writers who have an idea that 

 anything which rhymes is poetry ; and though his descrip- 

 tion of the tackle and the way of using it in this branch 

 of angling is correct enough, the poem is hardly worth 

 reading. The author writes very prosaic poetry ; but must 

 be credited with originality of design in producing the 



