LAKE GEORGE 


spect to lake and si Wordsworth- 
wees jan; and one can hardly imagine 
any nature of Byron’s dash and vigor and truly 
oceanic mood contentedly and permanently re- 
posing in the placid prospect of soft inland 
waters. Yet life’s cadences sometimes require 
just such restful influences as pervade the atmos- 
phere of mountain-girt Lake George, whose 
majesty of repose is the best punctuation for a 
period of activity. Indeed, if one would know 
the rare sublimity of nature’s calm, he can per- 
haps feel it nowhere more fully than at the pur- 
pling hour of a clear summer’s eve, when float- 
ing on the middle of this famouslake. As by 
magic influence, the waves subside until the last 
faint ripple drops off into slumber ; deepening 
twilight fills the cool and windless air; the 
mountains, softly dark, rear their massive forms 
with unwonted grace and dignity above the 
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