Deer on Mill Hill at Nightfall

[Leanne]

But... but... if you don't call it hawthorn, it doesn't make any sense to go picking haws I'd never heard of "whitethorn" either, I actually find it pretty hard to say! Damn foreigners, eh?

I actually like the present tense, myself. It sounds almost as if you're describing a snapshot or a painting of the moment itself, with a sense of immediacy -- and the urgency of the first stanza is shattered quite violently by the deer, then completely turned around to become a very calm, visually peaceful moment.