Poems of Nature (Whittier)/Illustration 5

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Evening by the Lakeside.

Yon mountain's side is black with night,
While, broad-orbed, o'er its gleaming crown
The moon, slow rounding into sight,
On the hushed inland sea looks down.

How start to light the clustering isles,
Each silver-hemmed! How sharply show
The shadows of their rocky piles,
And tree-tops on the wave below!
Summer by the Lakeside. 

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