FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



Oh I how I love the frolic foam ^ 



The eddies' whirling grace, 



T'hat ever seem in glow or gloam 



Strange wefts of fairy lace. 



T'he sunbeams' and the moonbeams pranks 



'To me are magic spells. 



And the tall trees upon the banks 



Are wizard sentinels. 



And full of safety is my realm. 



All tempests it defies ; 



The freshets which the fields overwhelm. 



But bid my spirits rise. 



Out of my winter sleep I leap. 



My heart attuned to Spring ; 



With dart, with bound, with swing and sweep, 



I revel, like a king. 



Sing on, wild winds, amid the pine ! 



Wild waters, onward race I 



Sing what a shining world is mine — 



A realm of liquid space ! 



