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sure bursts upon his heart, to be succeeded, when 

 the enchanting vision has passed, by a corresponding 

 depression, when he reflects how small is the chance 

 of his ever visiting his native place again; but that, 



" Getting and spending," 



he is doomed to wear out his life in a round which 

 affords little pleasure from reflection or from hope : 



"He sees 



A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; 

 Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, 

 And a river rolls on through the vale of Cheapside. 



He looks, and his heart is in Heaven : but they fade, 

 The mist and the river, the hill and the shade ; 

 The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, 

 And the colours have all passed away from his eyes/' 



THE THAMES. 



But to give over thinking or speaking of lakes, 

 mountains, and trout-streams, far in the "North 

 Countree," let us take a view of the Thames, and two 

 which the angler who lives 

 not afforded 



