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Tossing his hands in frenzied fear a moment, 1848 



Then borne away forever! but with gaze 



Calm and serene look through the eddying mists, 



On faith's unclouded brow, and take thy plunge 



As one whose Father's arms are stretched beneath, 



Who falls into the bosom of his God! 



1849 



Babcock, James Staunton. Niagara. (In his Visions and voices. 1849 

 Hartford: Hunt. 1849. Pp. 131-132.) Babcock 



An apostrophe to the " matchless Flood." A description of the Falls 

 at night together with reflections on the evanescence of man and the ever- 

 lastingness of Niagara. 



Street, Alfred Billings. Frontenac; a poem. Lond.: Richard 1849 

 Bentley. 1849. P. 157-158. Stree « 



A poem in nine cantos giving the history of Frontenac's expedition 

 against the Indians in 1 696. In canto VI are found the Niagara verses, 

 the last of which is quoted below: 



'Twas O-ni-ah-ga-rah there that hurled 



Its awful grandeur down its rock; 

 Dim sign of that dread shape a world 



Reeling, shall see, when with fierce shock 

 He'll plant His tread on sea and shore, 

 And swear that Time shall be no more. 

 Farther my harp is mute to tell 

 Of the Sublime — The Terrible. 



WELLSTEED, J. The Falls of Niagara. (West. lit. mess'gr., July, 1849 

 1849. 12:232.) Wellrteed 



All must confess who view this wondrous scene. 

 That if God were not, this had never been; 

 His voice here thunders in the mighty flood, 

 And these rent rocks proclaim, their maker God. 

 I love the dullness of the Cataract's roar, 

 And the wild grandeur of its craggy shore, 



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