132 Ffy-Fz/hmg. 



the only one, I believe, of the whole party who 

 perfevered after the firft hour's fifhing, with no 

 fifh to reward us for our pains. 



" Embathed in beauty, pafs'd before my fight 

 Like bloffoms that with funlight (hut and ope, 

 The half-loft dreams of many a holiday, 

 In boyhood fpent on that blue river-fide 

 With thofe whofe names, even now, as alien founds 

 Ring in the ear, though then our cordial arms 

 Enwreathed each other's necks, while on we roam'd 

 Singing, or filent, prankfome, ne'er at reft, 

 As life were but a jocund pilgrimage, 

 Whofe pleafant wanderings found a goal in heaven." 



DELTA. 



" A pretty fort of a fellow you are to propofe 

 meeting half-way down the ftream at luncheon- 

 time ! " were words that ftartled me not a little, 

 as I lay fpell-bound under the old beech-tree. 

 Juft below flood Pifcator revelling in the lovely 

 ftream I had fixed my affections on, I knew not 

 how long fmce, for the day was dancing on towards 

 a clofe, before I thought it much more than half 

 over. 



It was confolatory to hear my matter-of-facl: 

 friend coincide with me in one thing, and that 

 was, that the trout were unufually my ; though 

 between us we had contrived to make a pretty fair 



