Niagara Falls 



1872 And oh! what a tremendous water power 



Is wasted o'er its edge ! 

 One man might furnish all the world with flour 

 With a single privilege. 



I wonder how many times the lakes have all 



Been emptied over here? 

 Why Clinton didn't feed the Grand Canawl 



From hence, I think is queer. 



1872 TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUHAR. Niagara. (In Holley, George W., 

 Tupper Niagara; its history and geology, incidents and poetry. . . . N. Y., 



Buffalo, Toronto. 1872. P. 163.) 



By the author of Tuppcr's Proverbial Philosophy. 



I longed for Andes; all around and Alps, 



Hoar kings and priests of Nature robed in snow, 

 Throned as for judgment in a solemn row, 



With icy mitres on their giant scalps, 



Dumb giants frowning at the strife below. 



I longed for the sublime. Thou art too fair, 



Too fair, Niagara, to be sublime! 



In calm, slow strength thy mighty floods do flow 

 And stand a cliff of Cataracts in the air, 



Yet all too beauteous, Water bride of Time ! 



Veiled in soft mists and cinctured by the bow, 

 Thy pastoral charms may fascinate the sight, 



But have not power to set my soul aglow, 

 Raptured by fear and wonder and delight. 



1873 



1873 TAYLOR, Bayard. The chiropodist; a story of the watering places — 

 Taylor III— Niagara. (Harp, w., 1 873. 24:465-466.) 



Niagara used as the background for the happy denouement of a love 

 story. 



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