Niagara Falls 



1886 



Cowdin 



1886 



Lowry 



1886 



Marston 



1886 

 Warner 



1886 



Cowdin, Jasper Barnett. Ripple brook, Niagara Falls; two 

 poems. Brooklyn, N. Y.: 1886. P. 7. 



Solemnly, slowly, the vast weight of falling 



Waters the voice of a spirit immortal 



Drowns, — and he stands, as at Heaven's great portal, 

 Humbled in sight of his low earthly calling. 



Man hath no glory here; 

 Watching in silence thy soul-waking wonder, 

 O Niagara ! — hearing thy thunder, 



Pride must not come near. 

 There are fourteen verses in the spirit of this opening verse. 



LOWRY, AUGUSTUS N. Niagara. Revised edition. (1886 c.) 



Written for publication in the proceedings at the dedication of the 

 Niagara Reservation, July 15, 1885. 



[Marston, Frank.] Frank's ranche. . . . Bost. : Houghton 

 Mifflin. 1886. Pp. 76-81. 



The author makes no attempt at description. By his own account he 

 did only what is usual. If we may believe him, he and his party " were 

 glad to get away from Niagara and its army of vampires." 



Warner, Charles Dudley. Their pilgrimage. N. Y. : Harper 

 Brothers. 1897. Pp. 300-315. 



A most sympathetic study of the Falls with descriptions of their appear- 

 ance at night and in the early morning, and an account of Goat Island 

 and the Cave of the Winds. Used as a background for the story, these 

 pages descriptive of the Falls are full of beauty of expression and thought. 



It was dark when they came into the station at Niagara — 

 dark and silent. Our American tourists, who were accustomed 

 to the clamor of hackmen here, and expected to be assaulted by 

 a horde of wild Comanches in plain clothes, and torn limb from 

 baggage, if not limb from limb, were unable to account for this 

 silence, and the absence of the common highwaymen, until they 

 remembered that the State had bought the Falls, and the agents of 



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