Through the wood and over the wall The silver lake shines in the pale sun For a boy not so tall, only half grown The lake is far across Away from lounges, the people and their noises Only the silver lake, only the silver lake Now through the window, over earth brown, through the redwood Naked now in its winter trees, shining softly I see The water, but now the boy is gone From the silver lake, from the silver lake From the silver lake, only the silver lake *
