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Then her sovereign taste to please 1885 



Planted out great forest trees; 



Titians crown'd with myriad leaves 



Flaunting to the sun and breeze, 



Rooted them as in some scene, 



Quiet valleys roll between. 



And her fancy to complete 

 In this favorite wonder-seat, 

 Stole she rainbows from the skies, 

 Bright with heav'ns resplendent dyes, 

 Arched them o'er the raging fall 

 Watch to keep above them all. 



This poem is not found in the edition of 1 888, published by Wm. T. 

 Hunter. 



. Niagara by moonlight. (In Rhine, Alice Hyne- 1885 



man ed., Niagara park illustrated. . . . N. Y. : Niagara Pub. 

 Co. 1885. c. P. 60.) 



Fair above all is Niagara by night, 

 When the pale moon drawn from the silent sky 

 Meets with the thund'ring waters, as they fly 

 Over the precipice's dizzy height ; 

 Making them seem a mass of silver light. 

 A molten silver sea that thunders by, 

 In pomp as great, and equal majesty 

 As once the ancient deluge in its might 

 Rush'd onwards; spilling over mountain chain, 

 Plunging from scaur to bottomless abyss 

 Whence tortur'd waves leapt up in spray and rain. 

 Perhaps the moon fell on, as now on this; 

 Mellowing the grandeur of the stormy main 

 To scene of peace and perfect loveliness. 



This poem is not included in the 1 888 edition of this book of Alice 

 Hyneman Rhine's published by Wm. T. Hunter. 



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