Theron Coming
There is a place where the water goes
When the rains from Okeefenokee refrains
Leaving a gasping brim upon the limestone
Calling for but a drop to send
The Tupelo roots they bend in praying
Sending down their supplications below
For Theron to send
But Theron is downstream busily painting
A scene of floods bringing from Lem Griff
Waters spreading through palmetto homes
Sending to cypress trees the newborn nocturnal
Taking all others rapidly beyond Fowlers
But it's as a dream this painted scene
The gills cannot breath oil or
Swim upon linen canvas and so
Theron never comes
The Heron lands to say grace quickly
For the manna lately comes easy
With but a brush stroke he is away
As Theron he must meet upon
The Suwannee
Theron Gaulding, the late eccentric artist who lived in White Springs in a boarding house. His ashes spread on the Suwannee.
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