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Omnipotence! Eternity! oh there, 1842 



Rise thou my thought! fix thou my soul on Him, 

 Th' Omnipotent — the Eternal ! led by Him, 

 Safe o'er the cataracts of time, to dwell 

 Sweetly embosomed on the shores of bliss. 



1843 



Bacon, Ezekiel. Aegri Somnia; recreations of a sick room. 1843 

 N. Y.: J.Allen. 1843. Pp. 105-107. Bacon 



A poem entitled " Niagara Falls " ; religious in tone. 



LlSTON, James Knox. Niagara Falls; a poem in three cantos. 1343 

 . . . Toronto: Author. 1843. Litton 



This poem exalt9 Niagara as a monument of divine power, describes 

 the Falls under various aspects, assails the wicked policy of the United 

 States in aiding Bonaparte, describes the Battle of Lundy's Lane with 

 reflections on the war, discusses the Fall of Man and contains a prayer. 



Channing, William Ellery. The Niagara Fall. (In his 1843 

 Poems. Bost. : Little and Brown. 1843. P. 35.) Chanmng 



'Tis the boom of the fall with a heavy power 

 Solemn and slow as a thunder-cloud 

 Majestic as the vast ocean's roar 

 Though the green trees round its singing crowd, 

 And the light is as green as the emerald grass 

 Or the wide leaved plants in the wet morass 

 It sounds over all, and the rushing storm 

 Cannot wrinkle its temples or wave its hair. 

 It dwells alone in the pride of its form, 

 A lonely thing in the populous air 

 From the hanging cliffs it whirls away, 

 All seasons through, all the livelong day. 



1844 



BULL, Sara C. (Ole Bull's "Niagara") (In her Memoirs of 1844 

 Ole Bull. Bost.: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1886. Pp. 1 69-1 72.) Bull 



An account of Ole Bull's composition " Niagara," which was played 

 in public for the first time in New York in the winter of 1 844. A 



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