Menace our heart ere we master his own;
Then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us
Pardoned in heaven, the first by the throne!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
(1811-1863.)
[LXVIII.] PISCATOR AND PISCATRIX.
Published among Thackeray's "Ballads" under the sub-heading "Lines written to an Album Print".
As on this pictured page I look,
This pretty tale of line and hook,