The Lake + 

In spring of youth it was my lot + 

To haunt of the wide world a spot + 

The which I could not love the lessвБ†вАФ + 

So lovely was the loneliness + 

Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, + 

And the tall pines that towered around. + 

But when the Night had thrown her pall + 

Upon that spot, as upon all, + 

And the mystic wind went by + 

Murmuring in melodyвБ†вАФ + 

ThenвБ†вАФah, then, I would awake + 

To the terror of the lone lake. + 

Yet that terror was not fright, + 

But a tremulous delightвБ†вАФ + 

A feeling not the jewelled mine + 

Could teach or bribe me to defineвБ†вАФ + 

Nor LoveвБ†вАФalthough the Love were thine. + 

Death was in that poisonous wave, + 

And in its gulf a fitting grave + 

For him who thence could solace bring + 

To his lone imaginingвБ†вАФ + 

Whose solitary soul could make + 

An Eden of that dim lake. + 