清平樂·莫諾湖觀日出

風起雲散，

拂曉霞光漫。

映水碧藍岩塔璨，

寂寞海鷗翹盼。

 

瞬霎雪嶺朱丹，

掀起平鏡波瀾。

皓色山湖孤傲，

千姿環繞峰巒。

 

1860年代，馬克吐溫在他造訪莫諾湖的遊記中，稱莫諾湖是地球上最孤獨的地方。但時至今日，觀感已是大相庭經。

A Visit to Mono Lake By Mark Twain

(Chapter 38 of Roughing It)

 

Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is guarded by mountains two thousand feet higher, whose summits are always clothed in clouds. This solemn, silent, sail-less sea--this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on earth --is little graced with the picturesque.