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FLOATING ON THE LAKE.

I.IGHTLY 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;