88 SALMON I A. [FOURTH ;>AY. 



in the air, and the young ones were lost, and after- 

 wards their parents, to our aching sight.* But we 

 have touched the shore, and the lake has terminated ; 

 you are now on the river Ewe. 



POIET. Are we to fish here ? It is a broad clear 

 stream, but I see no fish, and cannot think it a good 

 angling river. 



* [This incident, so poetical, the Author first described in verse, with 

 aspirations that can hardly fail to interest the general reader J.D.] 



THE EAGLES. 



t( The mighty birds still upwards rose, 

 In slow, but constant, and most steady flight, 

 The young ones following ; and they would pause 

 As if to teach them how to bear the light, 

 And keep the solar glory full in sight ! 

 So went they on, till, from excess of pain, 

 I could no longer bear the scorching rays ; 

 And, when I looked again, they were not seen, 

 Lost in the brightness of the solar blaze. 

 Their memory left a type, and a desire : 

 So should I wish towards the light to rise, 

 Instructing younger spirits to aspire 

 Where I could never reach amidst the skies, 

 And joy below to see them lifted higher, 

 Seeking the light of purest glory's prize ; 

 So would I look on splendour's brightest day, 

 With an undazzled eye, and steadily 

 Soar upwards full in the immortal ray, 

 Through the blue depths of the unbounded sky, 

 Pourtraying wisdom's boundless purity. 

 Before me still a lingering ray appears, 

 But broken and prismatic, seen thio* tears. 

 The light of joy and immortality." 



