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I drove up US Route Five a little while ago. I parked Just off the highway on the shore of Lake Erie. It is one of the few spots one when walk down to the water. There is no cliff there. The bay is named for the Eagles that once lived there. Only their name remains.
I often go there when I have discovered a piece of music I have somehow missed on my journey through life. Today I am listening to Jules Massenet-Thais: Meditation. The violins are sobbing their song, the deep throated cellos moaning.
Off in the distance on the western horizon the sails of a two masted Bark are reflecting brightly the shining sun. The water is dark, brown and greenish in color, the gift of the viscious storms which swept the length of the lake last night and early this morning.
Years ago when we were young and greatly in love we came here at night, my wife and I. We laid together on the rocky sand shore. We talked, we loved.
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