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.
(John Douglas Sutherland Campbell)
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