. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. umbling through the rocks straining their struggling currentsBreak Banks & Bridges ; and do never stopTill thirsty Summer comes to drink them up ;Some almost alwaies pudder in the mudOf sleepy Pools, and never brook the floodOf Chrystall streams, that in continuall motionBend toward the bosom of their Mother Ocean. O watry Citizens, what Umpeer bounded Your liquid Livings ? O ! what Monarch mounded With walls your City ? what severest La


. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. umbling through the rocks straining their struggling currentsBreak Banks & Bridges ; and do never stopTill thirsty Summer comes to drink them up ;Some almost alwaies pudder in the mudOf sleepy Pools, and never brook the floodOf Chrystall streams, that in continuall motionBend toward the bosom of their Mother Ocean. O watry Citizens, what Umpeer bounded Your liquid Livings ? O ! what Monarch mounded With walls your City ? what severest Law Keeps your huge armies in so certain aw. That you encroach not on the neighboring Borders Of your swim-brethren ? What cunning Prophet your fit time doth show?What Heralds trumpet summons you to go?What Guide conductcth. Day & Night, your LegionsThrough path-less Path in unacquainted Regions?Surely the same that made you first of NoughtWho in your Nature some Iiieus wroughtOf Good and Evill; to the end that weFollowing the Good might from the Evill flee. Du Bartas His First Week; or The Birth of the World, 1605 AMERICAN


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