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Poem
By J.E.H. MacDonald
I go to the beautiful lake
O'Hara
lying in a rainbow sleep
under the steeps of Mount
Lefroy
and the waterfalls of Oesa.
And there I realized some of the
blessedness
of mortals…
I looked at the
emerald
and violet of her colour. It is
emerald and malachite, and
jade,
and rainbow green, and mermaid eyes…
These are some of the
people
who stand about Lake O'Hara:
Lefroy, Victoria,
Huber
Wiwaxy, Cathedral, Odaray…
I have memories
of the
clearest crystal
mountain days imaginable,
when we fortunates in the
height
seemed to be sky people
living in light alone…
Clues to Interpretation
- The "people who
stand about Lake O'Hara"
are mountains. You can find them on the map
.
- "Fortunates in the
height" could be people fortunate enough to hike high in the
mountains (MacDonald and his artist friends included) and experience the wonder of
the light and the sky in the mountains.
Source: Canadian Bookman, 1924 |
