Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Otsego, the Lake, N. Y. | | Otsego Lake | | Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) |
| | | O HAUNTED lake, from out whose silver fountains | |
| The mighty Susquehanna takes its rise; | |
| O haunted lake, among the pine-clad mountains, | |
| Forever smiling upward to the skies,— | |
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| Thrice blest art thou in every curling wavelet, | 5 |
| In every floating water-lily sweet,— | |
| From the old Lion at thy northern boundary, | |
| To fair Mount Vision sleeping at thy feet. | |
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| A master’s hand hath painted all thy beauties; | |
| A master’s mind hath peopled all thy shore | 10 |
| With wraiths of mighty hunters and fair maidens, | |
| Haunting thy forest glades forevermore. | |
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| A master’s heart hath gilded all thy valley | |
| With golden splendor from a loving breast; | |
| And in thy little churchyard, ’neath the pine-trees, | 15 |
| A master’s body sleeps in quiet rest. | |
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| O haunted lake, guard well thy sacred story,— | |
| Guard well the memory of that honored name! | |
| Guard well the grave that gives thee all thy glory | |
| And raises thee to long-enduring fame. | 20 | | | |
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