Fishers Old And New

Upon the bank behold him sit,

     The Walton of today;

His bait is in the water, nit,

     He dreams the hours away.

But there’s a mighty difference

     In fishers old and new;

Or else the finnies do not bite

     The way they used to do.

“I go a fishing,” Walton said,

     And then he went and fished;

And ere he left the purling pool,

     He landed all he wished.

“I go a fishing, Chappie says,

     “Awnd fish, awnd fish, awnd fish;

I go a fishing every day,

     But don’t get any fish.”

May 10, ‘96

B. Traveler,

  June 23,

    ‘96

Izaak Walton (c. 1594 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of ‘The Compleat Angler’, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of ‘Walton's Lives’.

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