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The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – (1350)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n


The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants –
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot

As if it tarried always
And yet it\u2019s whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake\u2019s Delay –
And fleeter than a Tare –

\u2019Tis Vegetation\u2019s Juggler –
The Germ of Alibi –
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie –

I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit –
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer\u2019s circumspect.

Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn –
Had Nature an Apostate –
That Mushroom – it is Him!

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At no time in the year is the concept of “fleeting” more realized than now. Thoughts are drawn to the nature of time, the passing of yet another cycle around the sun, when we approach New Year’s Eve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nature, as well, basically screams about transience. One day you see the mushrooms firmly planted on logs and soils, the next day they’ve disappeared. When you walk the same route, as I do, several times a week, it is almost spooky how the fungi jump into your field of vision or vanish, almost while you look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Thesaurus definition of the verb to mushroom<\/em> – as in sprout or grow quickly – confirms that aspect of mycological nature: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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