| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | V. “The mountain lake, o’ershadowed by the hills” | | By Anne Charlotte Lynch (1815–1891) |
| | | THE MOUNTAIN lake, o’ershadowed by the hills, | |
| May still gaze heavenward on the evening star, | |
| Whose distant light its dark recesses fills, | |
| Though boundless distance must divide them far. | |
| Still may the lake the star’s bright image wear; | 5 |
| Still may the star, from its blue ether dome, | |
| Shower down its silver beams across the gloom, | |
| And light the wave that wanders darkly there. | |
| O my life’s star! thus do I turn to thee, | |
| Amid the shadows that above me roll, | 10 |
| Thus from thy distant sphere thou shin’st on me, | |
| Thus does thine image float upon my soul, | |
| Through the wide space that must our lives dissever | |
| Far as the lake and star, ah me! forever! | | | | |
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