Lighting the Bay

By Dominic Trapani April 15, 2021 2

Sailing up Penobscot Bay

Plying through waters so blue

The sun is setting, the end of a gorgeous day

As we approach that little village named Camden

 

Beautiful rolling hills

High does each rise

Call them mountains if you will

From their beauty I could not remove my eyes

Bald, with its rounded peak

Megunticook, rising to heights so lofty and tall

Ragged, with a shape so unique

Battie, perhaps the most beautiful of all

When suddenly a green flash off my port

A small yet charming sentinel

Its flash so bright and short

A captivating scene I find so sensational

 

Look around and see

Here where mountains meet the sea

A beacon guarding this lovely port

Into the harbor it will escort

A beautiful island of rock and pine

A green light flashing so fine

Beauty for all to behold

Bringing delight to souls untold

And lighting the bay

 

Entering into the harbor, so small and unique

Sitting beneath Battie’s peak

Filled with schooners majestic and tall

Angelique, Mary Day, Mercantile, I could not name them all

But from this harbor my mind was furthest

For it was wandering to the island called Curtis

And so to there I rowed

And walked upon its grassy road

Surrounded by spruce and pine

Until I came upon a sight so fine

That beacon, glowing in the evening light

Grandeur such as this, oh what a sight!

 

Look around and see

Here where mountains meet the sea

Shining into the twilight

That green light so bright

Across the waters of Penobscot Bay

Into the darkness as daylight fades away

Beauty for all to behold

Bringing delight to souls untold

And lighting the bay

 

As the sun sets

And the light shines

As the bell chimes

And the birds cry

I feel so at home

Next to this bright burning light

 

Now tell me is there a sight

Like staring across an open sea

Illuminated by the moon and a beacon’s light?

And tell me is there a sight

Like sitting beneath these rolling hills

Atop a sentinel so short but bright?

 

Look around and see

Here where mountains meet the sea

A beacon guarding this lovely port

Into the harbor it will escort

A beautiful island of rock and pine

A green light flashing so fine

Beauty for all to behold

Bringing delight to souls untold

And lighting the bay

 

– Dominic Trapani (2021)