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The Isles Of Huron

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Bright are the countless isles which crest     With waving woods wide Huron's breast,--     Her countless isles, that love too well     The crystal waters whence they rise,     Far from her azure depths to swell,     Or wanton with the wooing skies;     Nor, jealous, soar to keep the Day     From laughing in each rippling bay,     But floating on the flood they love,     Soft whispering, kiss her breast, and seek     No passions of the air above,     No fires that burn the thunder-peak.     Algoma o'er Ontario throws     Fair forest heights and mountain snows;     Strong Erie shakes the orchard plain     At great Niagara's defiles,     And river-gods o'er Lawrence reign,     But Love is king in Huron's isles.

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