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Naughty little speckled trout, / Can't I coax you to come out? / Is it such great fun to play / In the water every day?
Do you pull the Naiads' hair / Hiding in the lilies there? / Do you hunt for fishes' eggs, / Or watch tadpoles grow their legs?
Do the little trouts have school / In some deep sun-glinted pool, / And in recess play at tag / Round that bed of purple flag?
I have tried so hard to catch you, / Hours and hours I've sat to watch you; / But you never will come out, / Naughty little speckled trout!