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William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

On Crossing Lake Champlain in the Steamboat Phœnix

Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825)

ISLET on the lake’s calm bosom

In thy breast rich treasures lie;

Heroes! there your bones shall moulder,

But your fame shall never die.

Islet on the lake’s calm bosom,

Sleep serenely in thy bed;

Brightest gem our waves can boast,

Guardian angel of the dead!

Calm upon the waves recline,

Till great Nature’s reign is o’er;

Until old and swift-wing’d Time

Sinks, and order is no more.

Then thy guardianship shall cease,

Then shall rock thy aged bed;

And when Heaven’s last trump shall sound,

Thou shalt yield thy noble dead!