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FLOATING ON THE LAKE.

I.
IGHTLY floating on the lake
 All the merry, merry day;
How the swells arise and break,
 Flash and toss their pearly spray!
    While I dream—float and dream
     As the billows in my wake
    Roll and bubble, glide and gleam,
     Creep and vanish in the lake.

II.
Green the shore and fair the lake;
 Here the bark and there the glade;
Here the ripple, there the brake;
 Here the sun and there the shade.
    While I dream—float and dream,
     Would my heart might never wake!
    Swell and bubble, glide and gleam,
     Creep and sparkle, laughing lake.

III.
Sigh and murmur, swelling lake,
 I've a lover on the shore;