Gods Lake is a lake in northeastern Manitoba in Canada. The lake covers an area of 1,151 square kilometres (444 sq mi), making it the 7th largest lake in the province. It lies north of Island Lake at an elevation of 178 metres (584 ft), approximately 280 kilometres (174 mi) east of Thompson, Manitoba. It has a perimeter of 678 kilometres (421 mi). The First Nations communities of Gods Lake, Gods Lake Narrows and Gods River are located on the shores of the lake. It drains north through Gods River into the Hayes River.
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“Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“Will lovely, lively, virginal today
Shatter for us with a wing’s drunken blow
This hard, forgotten lake haunted in snow
By the sheer ice of flocks not flown away!”
—Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)