No more idling

The Wisconsin Idyll has come to a gentle end, with the metropolis life barging back on the scene. Wisconsin boasts of many fine features, including the following:

• dill enhanced cheese curds
• a lovely, long-earned, leaning dog named Louie
• corn; lost of corn
• hills of various gentle gradations. Though not a feature unknown in other locales, this was refreshing to a person used to the flat topography of Minnesota.
• a large silver lake, Lake Winnebago, that floats a multitude of boats and ripples attractively in the wind. There are fish in there, by golly.
• home-grown poetry in surprising places. On the announcement board of a small church appeared the following admirable injunction: aspire to inspire until you expire. Wow.

And what has the Dickinsonian oracle been dying to tell us over the past few days?

Look back on Time, with kindly Eyes -
He doubtless did his best -
How softly sinks that trembling Sun
In Human Nature's West -
(E. Dickinson, 1251)