Spring Salmon
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
1872 to 1942
Track 1
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Where the spring salmon run!
From high and mountain places
When the green plover call!
And it's I that would be going
I would care not at all,
In a wind that's filled with singing
Bright silver, or sulking —
I'm fain for its blowing,
Great rivers that go gleaming
The chill wind that searches
Ere May's southern graces
Of grey water streaming,
It's oh, but I'm dreaming
I'd see the pine-tops swinging
Of stubborn, storm-packed snows!
In the snow-broth a-skulking,
The old red grouse that perches
And oh, were they bulking
Rub out the last white traces
The low-lying birches,
I'd hear the falls ringing,
And swaggers in the sun;
Where brown the heather blows,
I'm restless for his crowing,
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