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 the artful curve,

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;