The Lake Of Beauty Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

The lake of beauty
Ah! how it sings
When the north wind
Plays in and out
Of caves and coves.
The sky threatening
Of storms and tempests
Stars in face
White deep turning
A distant rumbling
And
A flash of lightning
And yet
No rain
No gales
No snow
Ah! the lake of beauty
Let me go in it
And below the sweet
Waters sink
Into a nether world
Free
Of Earth to us:
O such a lake of beauty
It goes not
From my enmeshed eyes
But
Cools the restless
Nervousness of life
Soothes dark despairs
A lake of beauty