Music — Poetry — Fiction 



For if the Ocean be as nought in the hollow of thy hand, 1838 



And the Stars of the bright firmament, in thy balance grains of Buckingham 



sand, 

 If Niagara's rolling flood seem great to us who lowly bow — 

 O! Great Creator of the Whole! how passing great art Thou! 



Yet though Thy Power is greater than the finite mind can scan, 

 Still greater is thy Mercy — shown to weak dependent man, 

 For him Thou clothed the fertile field with herb, and fruit, and 



seed. 

 For him, the woods, the lakes, the seas, supply his hourly need. 



Around — on high — or far — or near — the Universal Whole 

 Proclaims Thy glory, as the orbs in their fixed courses roll; 

 And from Creation's grateful voice, the hymn ascends above, 

 While heaven re-echoes back to earth, the chorus, " God is Love." 



Buckingham, James Silk. Hymn to Niagara. (In Johnson, 

 R. L., Niagara, its history, incidents, and poetry. . . . Wash.: 

 W. Neale. 1898. Pp. 56-57.) 



Evidently the same poem as the one quoted in Barham, although the 

 phraseology of the two poems differs in a number of lines. 



(The) Canadian girl, or the Pirate of the lakes, a story of the affec- 1838 

 tions; by the authoress of the Jew's daughter. Lond. : W. Bennett. 



1838. Pp. 264-267. 



An exaggerated, overdrawn and inaccurate scenic description of Niagara 

 and the Niagara region. 



RICHARDSON, Major JOHN. Eight years in Canada. Montreal: 1838 



H.H.Cunningham. 1847. Pp. 22-25. Richardson 



A description of the scenery, an account of the sensations and reflections 

 of the author on revisiting his old home on the Niagara. Some statistics 

 are also given and some remarks on the Table Rock album. 



I had expected to see the mass of water tumbling, foaming, 

 from something like a height, and threatening, at every moment, 

 to enshroud the spectator in one huge sheet of prismatic spray, 

 and to plunge him into the vortex which formed its bed ; whereas 

 on gaining the table rock I remarked, a few feet below me, a 



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