The Lake Lyrics

The Lake lyrics

( The Lake EP / Edgar Allen Poe )



In youth's spring, it was my lot 

To haunt of the wide earth a spot 

To which I could not love the less

So lovely was the loneliness

Of a wild lake, with black rock bound

And the tall trees that towered around



But when the night had thrown her pall 

Upon that spot as upon all

And the wind would pass me by

In its stilly melody



My infant spirit would awake

To the terror of the lone lake

My infant spirit would awake

To the terror of the lone lake



Yet that terror was not fright

But a tremulous delight

And a feeling undefined

Springing from a darkened mind

Death was in that poisoned wave

And in its gulf a fitting grave

For him who thence could solace bring

To his dark imagining 

Whose wildering though could even make

An Eden of that dim lake



But when the night had thrown her pall 

Upon that spot as upon all

And the wind would pass me by

In its stilly melody



My infant spirit would awake

To the terror of the lone lake

My infant spirit would awake

To the terror of the lone lake



Springing from a darkened mind

So lovely was the loneliness

In youth's spring, it was my lot 

In its stilly melody

An Eden of that dim lake

An Eden of that dim lake

Lone, lone, lonely...