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The battle of Niagara

second edition - enlarged : with other poems

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Again he smote his sounding lyre,
Again his arm to heaven was raised;
His robe was forth! and prouder—higher
He rang his trumpet notes of fire;
Until his very spirit blazed!
And from his eye of lustrous night,
There went—uninterrupted light!
And thus he chanted to the rude
Omnipotence of Solitude.