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Ah, Luxury! Beyond the heat / And dust of town, with dangling feet, / Astride the rock below the dam, / In the cool shadows where the calm / Rests on the stream again, and all / Is silent save the waterfall, -- / bait my hook and cast my line, / And feel the best of life is mine.
No high ambition may I claim -- / angle not for lordly game / Of trout, or bass, or wary bream -- / black perch reaches the extreme / Of my desires; and "goggle-eyes" / Are not a thing that I despise; / A sunfish, or a "chub," or "cat" -- / A "silver-side" -- yea, even that!