"Shelter", beginning: By the wide lake's margin I mark'd her lie— The wide, weird lake where the alders sigh— Tells of an apparently shy, easily frightened young female by a lakeside, who in the last line of the poem, it is revealed that: For she was a water-rat. The Rolling Stones song "Live With Me" includes the line "My best friend he shoots water rats and feeds them to his geese", referring to Keith Richards's habit of shooting water voles in the moat of his Redlands, West Wittering home. References External links General information on Water Voles (Archived; <2011) Mammals described in 1758 Aquatic mammals Mammals of Azerbaijan Mammals of Central Asia Mammals of the Middle East Mammals of Russia Rodents of Europe Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Arvicola