Familiar Sounds

You’ll always notice in the spring

     When fishing time comes round,

If trouters have the usual luck,

     You’ll hear the same old sound.

You’ll hear, “the water is too high”,

     Or else it is “too low”;

Or else the weather is “too cold”,

     Or else “too warm, you know”.

Or else "last year it was too dry”,

     “The winter too severe”,

“The spring too backward”, or perhaps

     “They’re running late this year”.

But never, never will you hear

     A single trouter state

“There are no trout”, or if there are

     “They will not take the bait”.

April 28, 1904