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The Speckled Trout

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With rod and line I took my way
   That led me through the gossip trees,
   Where all the forest was asway
   With hurry of the running breeze.

   I took my hat off to a flower
   That nodded welcome as I passed;
   And, pelted by a morning shower,
   Unto its heart a bee held fast.

   A head of gold one great weed tossed,
   And leaned to look when I went by;
   And where the brook the roadway crossed
   The daisy kept on me its eye.

   And when I stopped to bathe my face,
   And seat me at a great tree’s foot,
   I heard the stream say, “Mark the place:
   And undermine it rock and root.”

   And o’er the whirling water there
   A dragonfly its shuttle plied,
   Where wild a fern let down its hair,
   And leaned to see the water’s pride —

   A speckled trout. The spotted elf,
   Whom I had come so far to see,
   Stretched out above a rocky shelf,
   A shadow sleeping mockingly.

   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

   And I have sat here half the day
   Regarding it, It has not stirred.
   I heard the running water say —
   “He does not know the magic word.

   “The word that changes everything,
   And brings all Nature to his hand:
   That makes of this great trout a king,
   And opes the way to Faeryland.”

(Madison Julius Cawein)

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