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Michigan Pictured Rocks
BY CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON
From the far Sault of Sainte Marie he wanders,
On, ever on, the white foam on his track By night,
by day sails fleet before the wind,
Until he sees the head of Fond du Lac;
Yet finds not there the rest he seeks with yearning;
Fron all the cliffs—and he must wander forth Over the waves again,
by south winds driven,
Past the dark Palisades into the north.
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There stands the haunted arch of Spirit River;
There, in the storm, is seen the misty shape
. Of Manitou, who guards the great Superior,
Rising above the heights of Thunder Cape;
And seeing him, the guilty one, approaching,
The voices of the surf rise in a roar Below the porphyry cliffs,
sounding a summons,
To call the spirits to the lonely shore.
Down, down, they troop through the ravines of iron,
Over the-rocks where virgin silver shines;
Up, up, they roll the surf, a seething barrier,
And marshal on the beach their shadow lines.
He cries, he weeps, he prays with arms extended:
"Have mercy upon me, a soul unblest.—
I come not for your scores of shining treasure,
I only beg—I only pray for rest.
Upper Michigan
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