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[Roar on, Niagara! thou mighty wonder]
Roar on, Niagara! thou mighty wonder!
Till thy stentorian voice is cracked—
Yea, rend thy very lungs asunder,
In rolling out thy matchless thunder,
Old Cataract!
Till thy stentorian voice is cracked—
Yea, rend thy very lungs asunder,
In rolling out thy matchless thunder,
Old Cataract!
“Nil admirari” sure had been suppress'd,
Had not that rhymester (?) Horace lack'd
The privilege with which we 're bless'd,
To gaze upon thee, grand, majest-
Tie Cataract.
Had not that rhymester (?) Horace lack'd
The privilege with which we 're bless'd,
To gaze upon thee, grand, majest-
Tie Cataract.
Well mayest thou haughtily defy
Vain man to stop thee, or detract
Aught from thy glorious majesty,
Or dim thy fame, most magnifi-
Cent Cataract.
Vain man to stop thee, or detract
Aught from thy glorious majesty,
Or dim thy fame, most magnifi-
Cent Cataract.
Much farther has thy name been pub-
Lished than the story of Ilium sack'd—
No fame of any human rub-
Bish can compare with thine thou sub-
Lime Cataract.
Lished than the story of Ilium sack'd—
No fame of any human rub-
Bish can compare with thine thou sub-
Lime Cataract.
Forever shall thy waters flow,
And rush and fall by time intact,
And boil, and howl and hiss below,
Tent Cataract.
And rush and fall by time intact,
And boil, and howl and hiss below,
Tent Cataract.
Yet dangerous as thou dost appear,
Goldsmith records this wondrous fact.
“Some Indians once in safety steer-
Ed down in their canoes the fear-
Ful Cataract.”
Goldsmith records this wondrous fact.
“Some Indians once in safety steer-
Ed down in their canoes the fear-
Ful Cataract.”
Highgate, Vt.
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