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I'm trying to find a poem and the author---the only line I can remember is something about "a handsome fellow in the grass". Or am I making that up? This is driving me crazy!!!!! HELP!
-- Michael Culver (nikontog@cs.com), January 25, 2000
if you forget about 'handsome', then you are not making it up ... . A Narrow Fellow In The Grassby Emily Dickenson
A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,--did you not,
His notice sudden is.
The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.
He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun,--
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), January 25, 2000.