Music — Poetry — Fiction 



Endured but for a time. 1881 



Their everlasting prototypes, I ween, 

 Their patterns on the Mount by Moses seen, 



Were these, are here ! 



This much, at least is clear ; 

 If, in th' immensity of space, 

 God makes one spot his special dwelling-place, 



That sacred spot is this. 

 > I find the witness and the sign, 



Authentic, marvelous, divine, 

 Here in th' ebullient, luminous abyss, 



Where thousand suns once bright, 

 So seems, now back exhausted pour 



Their full collected light, 

 In ceaseless flood for evermore. 



All through this exalted poem, the author feels himself nothingness and 

 dust. In an ecstasy he describes his going to the cataract, and the tempta- 

 tion that assails him to leap down. Musing on his homeward walk he 

 finds that the scales have fallen from his eyes, and he sees God in all the 

 common things. 



Music of Niagara. (Scrib. mo., June, 1881. 22:307-308.) 1881 



Two letters to the editor criticising the statements and opinions of Mr. 

 Thayer, as expressed in his article in Scribner's Monthly for February, 

 1881, on the Music of Niagara. With these letters is published Mr. 

 Thayer's reply to the criticisms. 



PALMER, B. FRANK. Apostrophe to Niagara. (In Porter, Peter A., 1881 

 Official guide. Niagara Falls, river, frontier. . . . Buffalo: The Palmer 

 Matthews Northrup Works. 1901. Pp. 289-290.) 



This is Jehovah's fullest organ strain ! 



I hear the liquid music rolling, breaking, 

 From the gigantic pipes the great refrain 



Bursts on my ravished ear, high thoughts awaking! 



The low sub-bass, uprising from the deep 



Swells the great paean as it rolls supernal — 



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