The patient Fenman

(iphone photo but iphone app not working at the moment)

This sign is at the entrance to one of our footpaths, hadn't noticed the poem before today. There's no credit to the author sadly & I haven't been able to find reference to it online either but I thought I'd share :)

"The patient Fenman, who endur'd long time
The various hardships of the wat'ry clime;
Whose slaught'ring gun and faithful dog has fed
His wife and little family with bread;
Now holds the plough, turns up the moory soil
And finds a vast increase reward his toil."