Niagara Falls 



1906 Niagara, the genius of freedom, 



mson A creature for base command! 



Thy soul is the pottage thou sellest ; 



Withhold thy hand. 

 Or take him and bind him and make him 



A magnificent slave if thou must — 

 But remember that beauty is treasure 

 And gold is dust. 



Yea, thou, returned to the fertile ground 



In the humble days to he, 

 Shalt learn that he who slays a splendor 



Has murdered Me. 

 By this I adjure thee, brother, 



Beware to of end! 

 For the least, the extinguished, the conquered, 



Shall judge in the end. 



Wilkinson, Florence. Niagara. (Cur. lit., May, 1906. 

 40:559-560.) 



Wilkinson, Florence. Niagara. (WlcTs work, May, 1906. 

 12:7479.) 



1907 



1907 BLAKE, HENRY T. Ode to Niagara Falls. (Jour. Am. hist., Jan., 



Blake 1907. 1:141-142.) 



1907 LOGAN, John D. Over-song of Niagara. (Can. mag., Sept., 1907. 



Logan 29:440.) 



Why stand ye, nurslings of Earth, before my gates, 



Mouthing aloud my glory and my thrall? 

 Are ye alone the playthings of the fates, 



And only ye o'ershadowed with a pall? 

 Turn from this spectacle of strength unbound — 



This fearful force that spends itself in folly ! 

 Turn ye and hark above the organ sound 



My Over-song of Melancholy! 

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