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72 THOMAS TOD STODDART XLIV " Angling THE ANGLER'S CHOICE Songs. Where torrents foam, While others roam Among the yielding heather, Some river meek We'll forth and seek, And lay our lines together. Some sylvan stream, Where shade and gleam Are blended with each other ; Below whose bank The lilies lank All humbler flowers ensmother. Where cushats coo And ring-doves woo The shining channel over, From leavy larch Or birchen arch — Their unmolested cover. There daily met, No dark regret Shall cloud our noon of pleasure ; We'll carry rule O'er stream and pool And none to claim a measure I With tackles rare
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