262 ANGLING LITERATURE 



coctors of the songs. These effusions have been, in 1852, 

 reprinted in a complete volume. Fourteen of these songs 

 were written by Mr. Eobert Roxby, of Newcastle, a keen 

 and zealous angler on the river Coquet. The following 

 lines, called in the collection " The Fisher's Call," is now 

 given by way of specimen. 



" The thorn is in the bud, 



The palm is in the bloom, 

 The primrose, in the shade, 



Unfolds her dewy bosom 

 Sweet Coquefs purling clear 



And summer music making ; 

 The trout has left his lair, 



Then waken, fishers, waken. 



The lavrock's in the sky, 



And on the heath the plover, 

 The bee upon the thyme, 



The swallow skimming over ; 

 The farmer walks the field, 



The seed he's casting steady, 

 The breeze is blowing west, 



Be ready, fishers, ready. 



The violet's in her prime, 



And April is the weather ; 

 The partridge on the wing, 



The muircock in the heather ; 

 The sun's upon the pool 



His morning radiance wasting, 

 It's glittering like the gold, 



Oh ! hasten, fishers, hasten. 



