Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings, In the rooms of her ice-water mansion. Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams; The islands and bays are for sportsmen. And farther below Lake Ontario Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” 1976, by Gordon Lightfoot
There’s a road that meanders through the cottonwoods and wild apple orchards so sweetly that one might think that it is the apex of her journey instead of a prelude to a greater attraction.
