----- o'er no sweeter lake
Shall morning break or noon-cloud sail,--
No fairer face than thine shall take
The sunset's golden veil.
This portion of a verse by John Greenleaf Whittier( 1807-1892 ) appears in a book entitled
"James Fenimore Cooper" By Mary Elizabeth Phillips, published 1912.
By "googling" the verse I found no references to Otsego in connection with the above verse, however on Project Gutenburg I found the poem "Lake Kenoza" containing the identical verse referencing Kenoza vice Otsego. Lake Kenoza is in East Haverhill Massachussets, of which Whittier had fond childhood memories. "Kenoza" is purported to mean "pickerel" in the local Native American language at the time.
I must do some research to find out if this is a mis-representation , or if there is a valid historical basis for the substitution which appears on the surface to be somewhat bogus.
In either case I think these are beautiful words.
Please enlighten me if you have any information about the verse(s).
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