Quivering and thrilling with delight intense.

Long silvery cords she treasures in her sides,

By which, uncoil’d at times, she moors and rides;

From these, as hook-hairs on a fisher’s line,

See feathery fibrils hang in graceful twine,

Graceful as tendrils of the mantling vine

These swift as angler by the fishy lake

Projects his fly the keen-eyed trout to take,

She shoots with rapid jerk to seize her food,

The small green creatures of crustaceous brood;