Music — Poetry — Fiction 



1874 



WlNES, MARY J. Niagara Falls. (In her Infant harper and other 1874 

 poems. Cambridge, Mass.: Hurd & Houghton. 1874. P. 193.) Win« 



Great God ! within Thy glorious temple, mute with awe, 

 We stand and listen to the pealing hymn 

 Of thine Omnipotence. In all this wide, wide world 

 Where can earth's children go to learn a grander lesson 

 Of Thy Majesty? . . . 



Doubt must vanish, boasting cease, weariness and sorrow find rest and 

 comfort, in this spectacle, is the spirit of the poem. 



1875 



[MORETON, Mrs. C. J.] Niagara above the cataract. (In her 1875 

 Miscellaneous poems. . . . [Phila.:] Porter and Coates. 1 875. Moreton 

 Pp. 165-169.) 



Premonition of the battling flood at the fall makes the heart leap fast 

 as the traveller approaches the scene. 



[MoRETON, Mrs. C. J.] Niagara below the cataract. (In her 

 Miscellaneous poems. . . . [Phila.:] Porter and Coates. 1875. 

 Pp. 165-169.) 



The Falls are compared to a temple 



a fitting place 



For solemn thought, for deep and earnest prayer ; 

 For here the finger of our God I trace, 



Beneath, above, around me, everywhere ; 

 He hollowed out this grand and mighty nave, 



And robed his altar with the ocean wave! 



1876 



CARPIO, Manuel. Soneto a la Catarata del Niagara. (In Poesias 18 ?6 

 de Manuel Carpio con su biografia escrita por el Sr. Doctor Jose Bernardo ^- ar P 10 

 Conto. Nuova edicion. Veracruz-Pueblo: Liberias La Ilustracion. 

 Paris: A. Donnametti. 1883. P. 206.) 



El ancho rio avazase rugiente 

 Entre selvas que cubren la llanura, 

 Vastas regiones llenas de frescura 

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