Lyric

I would bring you a song, O lakes:

A song of delight and desire;

A song of the spring that wakes,

Of the warm red light that shakes

Far over your white ice-pyre.

I would breathe you a song, O lakes;

A song of the love that thrills

The heart of the year, and breaks

The bonds of winter, and eases

The thirst of the season in tiny little streams and rills.

I would breathe you a song, O lakes;

And the bountiful answer you give, O lakes;

And the love and the music it wakes

Entrances my spirit and makes

Me thankful to God that I live!