DURING THE PRESENT CENTURY. 287 



" THE SALMON FLY. 



O ! let me dress a salmon fly 



With feathers bright and gay, 

 Of every hue and brilliant dye 



That tempt the scaley prey, 

 With azure pinion of the rhom, 1 



The tail of buzzard brown, 

 Mix'd with the gorgeous colours from 



The prairie-pheasant's crown. 



With harle of the peacock's tail 



I'll wrap the polish' d steel ; 

 And carefully will blend the whole 



With freakles from the teal. 

 The flossy silk so soft in feel 



Hight down the breast will hang ; 

 While hackles, bright as cochineal, 



Will form the under wing. 



With purple wing of gay maccaw 



The topmost wings are dress'd ; 

 And tinsel bright in many a row 



Binds round the gaudy vest. 

 A plume from out his orange crest 



The cockatoo must lend, 

 Which drooping o'er, in graceful rest, 



Will cover barb and bend. 



My fly is dress'd, I'll throw the luro 



To tempt the salmon bold ; 

 With deadly barb, both sharp and sure, 



All swath'd in shining gold. 



in England. 



