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WINNIPESAUKEE by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE

First Line: NOW NATURE WITH A LAVISH HAND
Last Line: AND HERONS STALK OUR ISLAND'S SHORE.
Subject(s): BIRDS; ISLANDS; NATURE; SPRING;
Now Nature with a lavish hand
Has reddened maple, browned the oak;
And through the conifers a strand
Of upward curling white birch smoke
Beseeches us go home, the while
From shore to shore of this vast lake,
Snow and the cold erase the smile
Of the Great Spirit. In their wake
Spring shall return to find the scene
We left in red and gold quite bare,
And with her spendthrift brush, in green
She'll leave us word of being there.
And loons will shriek, and eagles soar,
And herons stalk our island's shore.



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