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THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by                    
First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well!
Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills.
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy


Enchanted lakelet! crystal mountain well!
Bright dimple on grave Nature's placid face!
Some wizard long enthralled thee with his spell
And held the secret of thy hiding-place.

All round thy rim primeval forests frown;
Their timid tenants venture here alone;
The midnight moon, in rapture gazing down,
Regards thy beauty and forgets her own.

Today thy story was revealed to me,
Who spied the breeze thy pensive face caress;
With shouts I set imprisoned Echo free
And learned the charm of thy sad loveliness.

A Pleiad banished from her home in heaven;
Her virgin, vestal flame went out on high;
Sterope, fairest of the sisters seven,
Came down to earth, where bleeding love may die.

Her affluent affection spent in vain;
Her malady beyond the hope of cure;
Since sister-sympathy increased her pain,
She fled the anguish she could not endure.

How long she wandered here we may not know,
Nor read the story of her mundane years,
Till heavenly powers, pitying her woe,
Transformed its burden to this vase of tears.

And here she rests; while daily, evermore,
The cup that evening empties morn refills;
Her kindred Pleiads grieving as before,
Her peace protected by these guardian hills.





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