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THE LAKE by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: WHEN IN OUR DRIFTING BOAT
Last Line: WISHING THAT YOU WERE THERE!
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; LONELINESS;

WHEN in our drifting boat
The early lights salute you
Bending to trail your arm
Where yellow lilies rise,
Lifting your full, white throat
To free its morning music—
Then do I dread the charm
Of your deep and changeful eyes!

When, at the night's young hour,
The first fair planet rises
Shaking her petals' gold
Afar in the fields of air;
When to that flaming flower,
Lonely, the dim lake answers—
Then how my heart grows bold,
Wishing that you were there!



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