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CONCLUDING REMAKK5. 



All covered with a smarting brine, 

 Alas! to tempt thee to thy fate, 

 And dragge thee from the brooke. 



harmless tenant of the flood, 



1 do not wish to spill thy blood ; 

 For Nature unto thee 



Perchance has given a tender wife, 

 And children dear, to charme thy life. 

 As she hath done to me. 



Enjoy thy streame, O harmless fish. 

 And when an Angler, for his dish, 



Through Gluttoney^ vile sin 

 Attempts— a wretch — to puli thee out, 

 God give thee strength, O gentle Trout, 



To pull the rascall in .' 



Dn. Wolcott 



