Niagara Falls 



1869 



Lord 



And when Air, Earth, and Sea and Sky 



Formless again together lie, 

 When judgment fires are kindling o'er 



Old Nature's wreck — Niagara's roar, 

 First echo in the ear of Time, 

 Shall sing his requiem sublime. 



1870 



Edwards 



1870 



Hanaford 



1870 



EDWARDS, C[HARLES] R. A story of Niagara. To which a.e 

 appended reminiscences of a custom house officer. Buffalo: Breed, 

 Lent. 1870. Pp. 1-289. 



A story of smuggling on the frontier with scenes at the Falls. 



HANAFORD, Mrs. PHEBE A. Niagara. (In her From shore to 

 shore and other poems. Bost. : D. B. Russell. San Francisco: A. L. 

 Bancroft & Co. 1871. P. 215.) 



This poem of Mrs. Hanaford's is not easy to find. 



While many libraries contain some of her sermons and prose writings, 

 few libraries of the present day contain " From shore to shore," which 

 is typical of the taste of an earlier generation. Several collections of 

 Niagara poetry will be found to contain Mrs. Hanaford's " Niagara." 



Awe-struck I stand 



Beside this avalanche of waves, and hear 

 The voice of God from out these watery depths. 

 Emotion-full, my soul in vain essays 

 To speak the thoughts that by this scene have birth. 

 Hark! to the voice of many waters here: 

 Like that great voice in Patmos heard by John, 

 It speaks of power, resistless energy, 

 And mighty purpose unconfined by man. 

 To me it speaks of God's almighty love, 

 Forever surging round the human soul: 

 The rocks of sin, the shoals of ignorance, 

 But bid those waves of love in tumult rise, 

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