Niagara Falls 



1840 



Clark 



1840 



Clinch 



1840 



Cooper 



1840 



1840 



M'JUton 



1840 



Tappan 



The author was an American journalist, the editor of the Philadelphia 

 Gazette. 



Here speaks the voice of God — let man be dumb, 

 Nor with his vain aspiring hither come. 

 That voice impels the hollow-sounding floods, 

 And like a Presence fills the distant woods. 

 These groaning rocks the Almighty's finger piled ; 

 For ages here his painted bow has smiled, 

 Mocking the changes and the chance of time — 

 Eternal, beautiful, serene, sublime! 



Clinch, Rev. Joseph H. Niagara. (In his The Captivity In 

 Babylon, and other poems. Bost: Burns. 1840. Pp. 77-81.) 



Ten stanzas descriptive of the author's emotion, musings and reflections 

 on the Falls and their scenery. 



Cooper, James Fenimore. 

 . . Phila. : Lea and Blanchard. 

 Conversation about Niagara. 



The pathfinder; or The inland sea. 

 1840. 1:47-49. 2:52-53. 



Legend of the whirlpool. 

 840. 



Buffalo, N. Y.: 



Press of Thomas & Co. 



A story told in verse of a battle to the death in the waters of the whirl- 

 pool between Huron and Iroquois. 



M'JlLTON, J. N. Niagara. (In his Poems. Bost.: Otis, 

 Broaders. 1840. Pp. 112-115.) 



A tribute to the restlessness and might, the terror and beauty of the 

 resistless and everlasting torrent. 



TAPPAN, WILLIAM B. Niagara. (In his Poet's tribute; poems of 

 William B. Tappan. Bost. : King, Crocker and Brewster. 1 840. 

 P. 30.) 



Niagara ! — the poetry of God ! 

 Whose numbers tell, in everlasting hymn, 

 Only of God! The morning stars that woke 

 Music along their courses, early caught 

 Its far off echoes, and in wild delight 

 Returned them, softened, round the universe. 

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