Poems (Jones)/Floating on the Lake

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FLOATING ON THE LAKE.
I.LIGHTLY floating on the lake All the merry, merry day;How the swells arise and break, Flash and toss their pearly spray!    While I dream—float and dream     As the billows in my wake    Roll and bubble, glide and gleam,     Creep and vanish in the lake.
II.Green the shore and fair the lake; Here the bark and there the glade;Here the ripple, there the brake; Here the sun and there the shade.    While I dream—float and dream,     Would my heart might never wake!    Swell and bubble, glide and gleam,     Creep and sparkle, laughing lake.
III.Sigh and murmur, swelling lake, I've a lover on the shore; ​There he waits my hand to take, When my wayward mood is o'er.    Still I dream—float and dream;     Shall I never, never wake?    Creep and bubble, glide and gleam,     Sink and swell, O tossing lake!
IV.Hark! the wind is on the lake; Shadows drift and veil the skies;Yonder cloud begins to break, Forth the baleful lightning flies.    Still I dream—float and dream;     O my foolish heart, awake!    See the billows roll and gleam,     Rise and dash across the lake!
V.Shoreward flying o'er the lake— Ah my friend, too long alone,Faithful still though all forsake; Well my loving shall atone!    While we dream—sweetly dream     Suns may shine, or storms may break;    Roll and bubble, glide and gleam—     Love is brighter, swelling lake!
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