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The Alembick



Vol. XIV

I. All Saint’s Day 2019
II. Christmas 2019
III. Shrovetide 2020
IV. Quarantine 2020

Vol. XV

I. Michaelmas 2020
    1. Editor’s Note
    2. Letters
    3. The Jester
    4. Fall
    5. A Bachelor’s Complaint
    6. From a Bachelor’s Notebook
    7. After ‘Tintern Abbey’     8. The Properties of Love
    9. The North Shore Girl’s Lament
    10. Ornithology
    11. From the Latin

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The North Shore Girl’s Lament


A tender ballad, largo

I dream of my baby
As the moon shines
Over Lake Michigan,
Hoping it’s bewitching him
To come back to me.

Chicago is Moonlit,
A city that’s
So perfect for kissin’ in
By old Lake Michigan
But my guy’s not with me.

Oh how I long to see his face
It would bring me good cheer
Whether at Navy Pier
Or Water Tower Place!

But he’s left Cook County
So I sit in the moonlight
And wish again . . .
Oh Lake Michigan
Bring my baby back to me!

This composition brought to you by the Cook County Board of Commissioners in partnership with the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau.
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