134 BESTS ART OF ANGLING. 



People the blaze. To sunny waters some 



By tktal instinct fly, where on the pool 



They sportive wheel ; or tailing down the stream, 



Are snatch'd immediate by the quick-ey'd trout 



Or darting salmon. Through the green- wood glade 



Some love to stsay, there lodgM, amr.s'd, and led, 



In the iresh leaf: luxurious, x)thers make 



The meads their choice, and visit ev'ry flow'r 



And ev'ry latent herb, tor tS>e sweet task 



To propagate their kinds, and where to v. rap, 



In what >ott beds, their young, yet undisclos'd, 



Employs their tender care : sonre to the house, 



The fold, and dairy, hungry bend their flight, 



Sip round the pail, or taste the curdling cheese: 



Oft, inadvertant from the milky stream 



They meet iheir fate, or welt'nng in the bowl, 



With pow'rless wings around them wrap'd, expire. 



Resounds the living surface of the ground; 

 Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum 

 To him who muses through the woods at noon, 

 Or drowsy shepherd as he lies reclin'd, 

 With halt-shut eyes beneath the floating shade 

 Of willows grey, close crowding o'er the brook. 



Gradual from these what numerous kinds descend 

 Evading e'en the miscroscopic eye ! 

 Full nature swarms with life, one wond'rous mass 

 Of animals, or atoms organized, 

 Wai'ing the vital breath, when parent heav'n 

 Shall bid his spirit blow. 



Let no presuming impious railer tax 

 Creative wisdom, as if aught was formM 

 t In vain, or not for admirable ends : 

 Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce 

 His works unwise, of which the smallest part 

 x;ceds the narrow vision of her mind? 



