Niagara Falls 



1898 



Meister 



1898 



Severance 



1898 

 Porter 



Thy cataract stupendous is, and fierce ; 

 No human voice or sound can ever pierce 

 Its deaf ning roar. 



Thy seething currents rend with awful might 

 Great rocks, that nature in chaotic might 

 Did rear on high. 



A whirlpool deep within thy walls doth hiss, 

 And raging 'round, sinks down in dark abyss 

 To unknown depths. 



Around Ontario's blue and wide domain, 

 No mountains check, nor lofty barriers chain, 

 Thine outlet vast. 



In the great ocean's infinite expanse 

 Thy volumes rest, and with their powers, enhance 

 The vasty deep. 



These verses are from the pen of a German poet, who signs himself 

 Wilhelm Meister. 



Severance, Frank Hayward. 

 Old trails on the Niagara frontier. 

 Cleveland: 1903. Pp. 221-260.) 



Niagara and the poets. (In his 

 1st ed. Buffalo: 1899. 2d ed. 



PORTER, Peter A. [Lines in a young lady's album.] (In Johnson, 

 R. L., Niagara, its history, incidents and poetry. Wash.: W. Neale. 

 1898. Pp. 49-50.) 



Written by Colonel Porter in a young lady's album, in which he also 

 drew a sketch representing the Falls in the distance with Father Hennepin, 

 La Salle, and an Indian chief in the foreground. The touch of humor in 

 the verses is very pleasant. 



An artist, underneath his sign (a masterpiece, of course) 

 Had written, to prevent mistakes, " This represents a horse " ; 

 So ere I send my Album Sketch, lest connoisseurs should err, 

 I think it well my Pen should be my Art's interpreter. 



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