Rhinelander Legend (song)

Song: Rhinelander's Legend
Music & Lyrics: AI
Background: A song about an Adirondack Ghost of Mary Rhinelander.

[Verse1]
Lake Pleasant's whisper, a story untold,
Of Mary Rhinelander, from days of old.
A mansion built by Philip, jealous and deep,
Where Mary, a prisoner, yearned to leap.
From city's bright bustle, to wild Adirondack grace,
She dreamt of mingling, of finding her space.
But Philip, possessive, held her tight in his grasp,
Each letter she penned, he would burn in a gasp.
The peddler, her confidante, vanished from sight,
His fate, a dark whisper in the Adirondack night.
Friends who sought Mary, met mysterious ends,
Their bodies discovered, their lives' threads unspooled.
Mary, sickly and frail, denied a doctor's care,
Some say poisoned, others, a mother's despair.
Her spirit, they say, still wanders the grounds,
A sorrowful phantom, with heartbroken sounds.
The estate now in ruins, stones fallen to dust,
Yet Mary's presence, a spectral, lingering trust.
A cold, quiet feeling, a touch of the past,
The ghost of Lake Pleasant, a memory meant to last.