Lake View

Lake View!  Lake View!

            And all I knew

Of fun and frolic, love and you,

            Comes back and stays

            Through all my days

            With me.  And strays

My memory far down ways we knew.

Lake View!  Lake View!

            And me and you,

And never worry, never rue;

            The Neches flows,

            And the red rose

            Its leaves unclose

Where erst I rode and rowed with you.

Lake View!    Lake View!

            Ah—well-a-day—

No blossom-bordered happy way

            But has an end,

            But needs must blend

            With ways whose trend

Is far, aye far, from song and play.

Lake View!  Lake View!

            And happy you!

Whose lifting laugh down ways we knew

            Is with me yet!

            Like jewel set

            In some rare fret

Of treasured gold!  My heart’s with you!

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