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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 5 (search)
The pond was, and I believe still is, surrounded by deep woods and overhung by a hill covered with moss-grown fragments of rock, among which the pink Cypripedium or lady's slipper used to grow profusely. The Andromeda was on the other side of the lake, and some one had left a leaky boat there, which I used to borrow and paddle across the dark water, past a cedar forest which lined it on one side, and made me associate it with the gloomy Mummelsee of one of my beloved German ballads by August Schnezler:--Amid the gloomy Mummelsee Do live the palest lilies many. All day they droop so drowsily In azure air or rainy, But when the dreadful moon of night Rains down on earth its yellow light, Up spring they, full of lightness, In woman's form and brightness. My lilies were as pale and as abundant as any German lake could ever boast; and among them there was to be seen motionless the black prow of some old boat which had sunk at its moorings and looked so uncanny that I never would row