Mud Hen Lake

Famous quotes containing the words mud, hen and/or lake:

“We sank a foot deep in water and mud at every step, and sometimes up to our knees, and the trail was almost obliterated, being no more than that a musquash leaves in similar places, where he parts the floating sedge. In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The house-dog lost,
the little hen escaped,
the precious hay-rick scattered,”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)