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Title: Kenoza Lake Author: John Greenleaf Whittier [More Titles by Whittier] This beautiful lake in East Haverhill was the "Great Pond" the writer's boyhood. In 1859 a movement was made for improving its shores as a public park. At the opening of the park, August 31, 1859, the poem which gave it the name of Kenoza (in Indian language signifying Pickerel) was read. As Adam did in Paradise, Lake of the pickerel!--let no more Let Indian ghosts, if such there be The shores we trod as barefoot boys, Here shall the tender song be sung, Harmless as summer lightning plays In sunny South and prairied West They join us in our rites to-day; Kenoza! o'er no sweeter lake Long be it ere the tide of trade Still let thy woodlands hide the hare, Thy peace rebuke our feverish stir, And sinless Mirth, from care released, And when the summer day grows dim, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |