Wordsworth is getting kinda depressing here. All by itself, this section doesn't have the punch that it gets in context. We'll be at a full read soon, and then, I hope, the whole thing will make good sense. It's such a great poem, but it does require some effort to get the whole thing.

Recorded while camping, and I almost made the life-altering decision to grab a rattlesnake as it slithered by. I didn't know it was a rattlesnake at the time, not until it started shaking its tail at me. It was pretty obvious then. I ran away, quickly. I'm grateful it was closer to 60F than to 90. That would have been an ugly end to, well, everything. NOTE TO LISTENERS: do not pick up snakes unless you look at the tail section first.

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