LAKE GEORGE 



jAKE scenery is mild, rather than 

 heroic ; in a word, with all due re- 

 spect to lake and poet, Wordsworth- 

 ian ; 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 famous lake. 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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