268 FOREIGN ANGLING LITERATURE 



CHAPTER IT. 

 On Foreign Angling Literature during the present Century. 



WITHIN the last fifty years there have appeared several 

 lyrical productions at the Hague, and in other towns 

 in Holland, as well as in those situated in the higher 

 districts of Belgium, on the pleasures of angling. We 

 have songs on the Ehine, the Moselle, and the Sambre, 

 possessed of great merit. One of these songs * On the 

 Ehine,' we shall attempt to give the substance of in the 

 following lines. 



The Ehine, the Ehine, thou noble stream, 



Where warlike deeds are told ; 

 Where on thy banks, St. Goar once stood, 



His mission to unfold. 



Thy waters pure from mountain top 



Come rushing down the vale ; 

 A pointed emblem of those feats 



Wrapp'd in thy wond'rous tale. 



The peaceful angler treads the banks 



Where warriors oft hath led 

 Their armies ; and patriots bold 



For freedom's cause hath bled. 



With waves of clouds, rich and glowing, 



Which leared upon thy breast, 

 Thou seem'st a spot to charm the sense, 



Where anglers might be blest. 



