Explore "The Four Lakes of Madison" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Four limpid lakes, -- four Naiades / Or sylvan deities are these, / In flowing robes of azure dressed; / Four lovely handmaids, that uphold / Their shining mirrors, rimmed with gold, / To the fair city in the West.
By day the coursers of the sun / Drink of these waters as they run / Their swift diurnal round on high; / By night the constellations glow / Far down the hollow deeps below, / And glimmer in another sky.
Fair lakes, serene and full of light, / Fair town, arrayed in robes of white, / How visionary ye appear! / All like a floating landscape seems / In cloud-land or the land of dreams, / Bathed in a golden atmosphere!