Niagara Falls 



1898 



Porter 



1898 



^dgely 



1898 

 Wendell 



And brides of every age and clime frequent the island's 



bower, 

 And gaze from off the stone-built porch — hence called the 



Bridal Tower — 

 And many a lunar belle goes forth to meet a lunar beau, 

 By the waters falling as they fell two hundred years ago. 



And bridges bind thy breast, O stream! and buzzing mill- 

 wheels turn, 



To show, like Samson, thou art forced thy daily bread to 

 earn; 



And steamers splash thy milk-white waves, exulting as they 

 go, 



But the waters fall as once they fell two hundred years ago. 



Thy banks no longer are the same that early travelers found 



them, 

 But break and crumble now and then like other banks 



around them ; 

 And on the verge our life sweeps on — alternate joy and 



woe 

 But the waters fall as once they fell two hundred years ago. 



Thus phantoms of a by-gone age have melted like the spray ; 

 And in our turn we too shall pass, the phantoms of today: 

 But the armies of the coming time shall watch the ceaseless 



flow 

 Of waters falling as they fell two hundred years ago. 



RlDGELY, A. S. (Poem.) (In Johnson, R. L., Niagara, its history, 

 incidents and poetry. Wash.: W. Neale. 1898. Pp. 54-55.) 



This poem also appears in Holley's " Niagara; its history and geology, 

 incidents and poetry," published in 1872 and has been already quoted 

 earlier in this chapter. 



Wendell, Harvey. Niagara in winter. (Leslie's w., Mar. 24, 

 1898. 86:186.) 

 A descriptive poem of Niagara " a frozen poem." 



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