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P A K T 



THEME. 



NIAGARA ! who, in thunder tone, 



Callest my spirit yielding to thine own ; 



As turned to thee, each feeble, yearning sense 



Grasps at thy wonders, where, in eloquence 



Primeval, wonderful, unchecked, sublime! 



Teaching Eternity, deriding Time, 



O er the vast gulph thy dreadful music peals 



Great Nature s triumph, and to man reveals 



Omnipotence ; here taught by thee to know 



His littleness, and in reverence to bow 



Before Infinity ! 



Bridged, docked, and tolled, for bath and mill re 

 stricted, 



Daguerred, daubed, rhymed, by every lout de 

 picted ; 



