Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAKE MCCROSSEN, by FREDERIC FADNER


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First Line: The lights that across the dark water
Last Line: Must die with the day in its fears?
Subject(s): Beauty; Nature


The lights that across the dark water
Make music that never is heard --
Such tones as no artist has sought, or
Is sung by that so solemn bird --
Touch ripples of color commingled
By fingers unfelt on the keys
With zephyrs that seraphs have singled
For seraphs' seraphical seas.

The mere nestles down like a jewel,
The hills loom up hard in the sky
With rough rugged pine trees and cruel --
Subdued now with night drawing nigh.
And cloud-forms since times that are olden
Transfigure horizons in death
With cerements once crimson and golden,
Now sable in shadowless breath.

Ah, heart of my heart, what suffices,
What means all this riddle of things?
Are virtues distinguished from vices
And love's so insatiable stings?
What means all this measured emotion,
What means all our rapturous tears
If all this so dulcet devotion
Must die with the day in its fears?





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