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Michigan Pictured Rocks
The poor worn body, old with many lifetimes,
They find there lying on the golden sands; But, lifting it with wonder and with reverence,
It crumbles into dust beneath their hands. The poor worn boat grown old with endless voyages,
Floats up the coast, unguided and alone, And stranding 'neath the cliffs, its mission over,
By the great spirit's hand is turned to stone.
You see it there among the Rocky Pictures,
The mainsail and the jib just as they were; We never passed it with a song or laughter
In the gay days when we were voyagers; The best among us doffed our caps in silence;
The gayest of us never dared to mock At the strange tale that came down from our fathers,-
The pictured legend of the old Sail Rock.
Upper Michigan
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