Voices from the Lakes, and Other Poems By the Rev. Charles D. Bell |
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SONNET. LAKE OF GENEVA.
The mountains soar in grandeur to the skies,Sublime, majestic, beautiful, and fair;
And steeped in lustrous bath of violet air,
They take with wonder the delighted eyes,
As near this heavenly lake they towering rise.
And as they stand all drenched in glowing light,
They look as smooth as samite to the sight,
A gloss like sheen of satin on them lies,
The magic atmosphere has lent the stone
A tender beauty that is not its own;
Thus trial that is seen thro' tender haze
Of time, and thro' the light of far past years,
Is robbed of all its sharpness as we gaze,
And sorrow's self a softer aspect wears.
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