Whose hearts hold scarce a trace of savage clans;

If childlike still, so be! the hand of time

Is stretched past legacies to shape and cleanse.

[1]. Pronounced as in French.

LAKE GEORGE.

Where cedars taper, there's a lake beyond;

Once visioned from the hill, it beckons me;

Soft-hazed with heat's grey, slumbrous canopy,

Or bright with glittering dust of diamond,

Or calmed when waning day wafts glances fond,