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Around I see his all-creative Hand,

Extending through the water-through the land. Hail, Power Supreme! Great Cause of Causes hail! Whose vital power cheers the vernal gale.

From scenes below my Muse ascending moves,

And higher strains and loftier lays approves ;— With zeal impell'd, would plume her feeble wingBut how can mortal muse due honours bring?

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CANTO III.

Angling for Trout.-Fickleness of the Seasons in Britain.Season for Trout Fishing.-Rules for the Art of Artificial Fly Fishing.-A living Loach good Bait for Trout.-Rules for Bream, Cheven, Barbel and Tench Fishing.-Boyish Sports. Learning to Swim and Angle.-Groping for Trout. How performed. Nature's Kindness and

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Bounty. Approach of Night.

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THE seasons, surely, in these northern climes,
Laugh at their image drawn by ancient rhymes;
For Spring oft shivers in the British isle,
But warms, in British song, with Baia's smile.
E'en now the hawthorn, on the birth of May,
Withholds her blossom, nor believes the day.
And much I doubt if the yet chilling breeze,
Crisping the lake, its spotted nation please;

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