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 Boy, and Barefoot -- I more than once at Noon 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 --