Sunday, July 5, 2015

To Kezar Lake



O, Kezar! once thou hadd’st fish,
     They filled thy deeps from shore to shore;
But Newkirk, in thy waters clear
Didst bathe, and now it doth appear
     Thy fish are dead for evermore.
O Kezar, Kezar, grand and blue,
This is a sorry fate for you.



July 5, 1904


 
Newton Newkirk bathing naked in Kezar Lake, Lovell Maine.
















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