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1802 



Chauteaubriand, Francois Auguste Rene, vkomle de. Atala; 1802 

 or. The amours of two Indians in the wilds of America. Lond. : For Chateaubriand 

 J. Lee. 1802. Pp. 120-121. 



1804 



MoORE, THOMAS. To the honourable W. R. Spencer. (In his *804 

 Poetical works. N. Y.: D. Appleton and Co. 10 vols. 1853. Moore 

 2:313-319.) 



Written from Buffalo and containing in its last lines an allusion to 

 Niagara. 



Even now, as, wandering upon Erie*s shore, 

 I hear Niagara's distant cataract roar, 

 I sigh for home, — 



MoORE, THOMAS. To the Lady Charlotte Rawdon. (In his Poetical 

 works. N. Y.: D. Appleton and Co. 10 vols. 1853. 2:325-335.) 



This poem, written from the banks of the St. Lawrence in an epistle to 

 Lady Charlotte Rawdon, contains two beautiful Niagara passages which 

 are quoted below. In the second one. The Song of the Spirit, Moore 

 describes Niagara in winter, as told to him, wandering on the brink of 

 the Falls by an Indian spirit of the past. 



I dreamt not then that, ere the rolling year 

 Had filled its circle, I should wander here 

 In musing awe; should tread this wondrous world, 

 See all its store of inland waters hurl'd 

 In one vast volume down Niagara's steep ; 

 Or calm behold them, in transparent sleep, 

 Where the blue hills of old Toronto shed 

 Their evening shadows o'er Ontario's bed; 



' Oft, when hoar and silvery flakes 

 Melt along the ruffled lakes, 

 When the gray moose sheds his horns. 

 When the track, at evening, warns 

 Weary hunters of the way 

 To the wigwam's cheering ray, 



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