
The Riverside Inn and the Evening Song
At a small inn beside a slow river, an old angler who long ago traded ambition for the water’s rhythm spends an unhurried evening fishing, sharing tea and melon, and singing with a cheerful countryman and a few gathered friends, discovering again that enough is a feast, and that the deepest happiness asks nothing rare of us.
Retold from The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton.