清平乐·莫诺湖观日出

风起云散，

拂晓霞光漫。

映水碧蓝岩塔璨，

寂寞海鸥翘盼。

 

瞬霎雪岭朱丹，

掀起平镜波澜。

皓色山湖孤傲，

千姿环绕峰峦。

 

1860年代，马克吐温在他造访莫诺湖的游记中，称莫诺湖是地球上最孤独的地方。但时至今日，观感已是大相庭经。

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.