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To develop a little the line of the poet Edmund Spenser, who
in the sixteenth century wrote, " Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song":
it still runs softly enough but could never be called sweet in any gustatory{{U}}
(1) {{/U}}. If its brown-black color{{U}} (2) {{/U}}sound
sufficient warning we could, but will{{U}} (3) {{/U}}recalling the
dreadful things that Thames oarsmen say a mere mouthful will do to anyone{{U}}
(4) {{/U}}. Probably Spenser was using the word "sweet" in the sense
of "dear" rather than of{{U}} (5) {{/U}}. Not necessarily though, for
the river was still, a century after Spenser, clear enough for{{U}} (6)
{{/U}}to dive into it from the terraces of their waterside mansions.
However, Spenser would probably{{U}} (7) {{/U}}to learn that today the
river is chemically in better shape than it has been for many years—a fact borne
out by the{{U}} (8) {{/U}}of fish now to be found, and angled for, in
the reaches
