The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., July 21, 1921, page 1

THE LURE OF TROUT LAKE

     The following poem - The Lure of Trout Lake - was written by Peter O. Reynolds who is spending the summer at the Sickafoose ranch in Trout Lake valley. He has traveled extensively over the United States and Canada but finds a charm about the Cascade mountains and valleys that he cannot resist.
     Mr. Reynolds also spent last summer in the Trout Lake valley.

THE LURE OF TROUT LAKE

There's a charm about its water,
     An the dawning of the day
When the rising of the day God
     Has chased the mists away

There's a charm about the Forest
     That I hardly can explain
With its gaily nodding tree tops
     As a welcome, back again

There's a charm about the mountain
     With its snow, now melting fast,
All reminding me so keenly
     That another year has past.

There's a charm about the river
     That is flowing to the sea,
Like our life, so swiftly passing
     To that great-Eternity.

All nature is as constant
     All those, we call a Friend,
Enduring as the mountain,
     And consistent, to the end.

P.O. Reynolds
Sickafoose Ranch
June 30, 1921

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