82 THE ANGLER'S GUIDE. 



From hence we may a moral draw : 

 There have been men, and may be more, 



TV ho, with rapacious pride, 

 Have, like the perch, pounced on their prey- 

 But it has proved an evil day, 



Tor in the affair they've died. 



Let truth and virtue lead our way ; 

 Then wit may talk, and fun may play, 



If wisdom join the throng : 

 In all our doings temperate be, 

 That all who may our conduct see 



May never see us wrong. 



