A Water-Color

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Low hidden in among the forest trees
  An artist's tilted easel, ankle-deep
  In tousled ferns and mosses, and in these
  A fluffy water-spaniel, half asleep
  Beside a sketch-book and a fallen hat--
  A little wicker flask tossed into that.

  A sense of utter carelessness and grace
  Of pure abandon in the slumb'rous scene,--
  As if the June, all hoydenish of face,
  Had romped herself to sleep there on the green,
  And brink and sagging bridge and sliding stream
  Were just romantic parcels of her dream.

© James Whitcomb Riley