Country Walks of a Naturalist with His ChildrenGroombridge and Sons, 1869 - 154 páginas |
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Página 76 - Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mix'd the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank Reverted plays in undulating flow ; There throw, nice judging, the delusive fly ; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Página 77 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 36 - He with a smile did then his words repeat; And said, that, gathering leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. 'Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have dwindled long by slow decay; Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.
Página 76 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch, the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow-dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Página 77 - Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear. At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the death...
Página 77 - At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the death, "With sullen plunge. At once he darts along, Deep struck, and runs out all the lengthened line ,Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode ,And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool, Indignant of the guile.
Página 76 - A worthless prey scarce bends your pliant rod, Him, piteous of his youth, and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of heaven, Soft disengage, and back into the stream The speckled captive throw.
Página 93 - The female, selecting some leaf of an aquatic plant, sits, as it were, upon its edge, and, folding it by means of her two hinder feet, deposits a single egg in the duplicature of the folded part of the leaf, which is thereby glued most securely together, and the egg is thus effectually protected from injury.
Página 106 - Tell me when my wedding be ; If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away.
Página 70 - The myriads of ephemerae," says he, " which filled the air over the current of the river, and over the bank on which I stood, are neither to be expressed nor conceived. When the snow falls with the largest flakes, and with the least interval between them, the air is not so full of them as that which surrounded us was of ephemerae.