No rocks impede thy dimpling course,

That sweetly warbles o’er its bed,

With white, round, polish’d pebbles spread;

While, lightly pois’d, the scaly brood,

In myriads cleave thy crystal flood;

The springing trout in speckled pride;

The salmon, monarch of the tide;

The ruthless pike, intent on war;

The silver eel, and mottled par,

Devolving from thy parent lake,