American Magazine (September, 1905) "The Water Nymphs" A poem in eight verses. With photograph by Alice Boughton. Not indexed in RGTPL. p 577. [HARPER]
from American Magazine The Water Nymphs by Ellis Parker Butler
They hide in the brook when I seek to draw nearer,
Laughing amain when I feign to depart;
Often I hear them, now faint and now clearer --
Innocent bold or so sweetly discreet.
Are they Nymphs of the Stream at their playing
Or but the brook I mistook for a voice?
Little care I; for, despite harsh Time's flaying,
Brook voice or Nymph voice still makes me rejoice.
