The Poetry of Sports (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1896)
Peek, Hedley, Lang, Andrew, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 329
g at it, he himself was caught : Swallowing it down, this evil fate he wrought, —His only purpose being then to dine— Lo! to be swallow’d, swiftly he was mine : Misled by his gay-painted fly astray, Of angler’s rod he is the welcome prey. Benign retirement! (Full reward to me For all my life’s… … He leaps to seize what seems a noble prize, And gulps the hidden hook whereon he dies. Often are little thimys the types of great : Look thee around, and with all this thoul’t meet. The foamy Fall the world is, man the fish ; The plum’d hook, sin guis’d in some lordly dish. H. VAUGHAN, 1669?
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