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Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America 
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, 
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United States border 
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface 
fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles 
And total volume equals 
5,439 cubic miles immeasurable worth.

Lake Erie from Erie tribe, abridged form 
of Iroquoian word erielhonan “long tail”
Lake Huron named by French explorers 
for Wyandot or “Hurons” whence they did sail
Lake Michigan likely from Ojibwa word mishigami 
“great water” aka outsize gold quail
Lake Ontario i.e. “Lake of Shining Waters” 
shimmering like hammered coat of mail
Lake Superior coined from French 
“lac supérieur” "upper lake", an emerald watery dale
Ojibwe people called it gitchigumi medicinal 
to cure that, which might ail.

These five lakes each reside in separate basin
Form a single, naturally interconnected body 
of fresh water caisson
Linking east-central interior of North America 
to Atlantic Ocean akin to an escutcheon.

From interior to outlet at St. Lawrence River, 
Water flows via Superior to Michigan-Huron 
southward to Erie to avoid a shiver
Finally released northward to Lake Ontario 
as like a well taut archer with his quiver.

The lakes drain a large watershed via many rivers 
as an Olympic team
Populated with approximately 35,000 islands 
this estimate not x stream. 

The Great Lakes region contains 
many thousands of smaller lakes, 
Often called inland lakes undulating 
in cascading analogous to a fluid ream
Lake Michigan the only one located 
entirely within United States
While the others border between 
United States and Canada – essentially a liquid seam.
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