An Exuberant Walton

          The Departure

Good-bye old desk and office chair,

     Good-bye ye musty books;

Farewell old ink-pot, pens and shears.

     I’m off to fields and brooks!

Adieu ye stuffy counting room,

     Good-bye to weary brain;

Farewell to noisy city streets,

     I’m off to fish again!

            The Arrival

Hail distant mountains, blue and calm,

     Hail rivers rushing down;

The gleaming lake rounds into view –

     Two hundred miles from town.

Hooray! The guides, the boats, the shore,

     For God’s sake stop the train!

“Supper?” Away with worldly things,

     I’m off to fish again!

April 8, ‘99

June 1, ‘99

  N.E.S.

             

_{Izaak Walton (c. 1594 – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of ‘The Compleat Angler’, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_Walton}