Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-08-08

Above NAV claim thy fellowship
His voice Is heard in ihine--itis banner
In thy rainbow wavos-His garments
In thy drapery hoat- ;,
Exchanging iorm--unceasinS
War! Niagara What art thou
Spray -thunder-toanl-
nv Frederick Isaac Poll nd Boston
August %, 1888, Pronounced on Table Rock.
Uav;,y seen NIAGARA and passed under the sheet,
IL is impossible should ever another object OF
interest below. Oh God have mercy on me,
poor, weak, fragile mortal Dumb and conionhded
before thy works, lay down my pen IN silence, and
will go and die like poor worm u A. II.
why the deuce did You take it up BY Cymic.
More truth than poetry BY a Saint.
Ideas suggested bya view ofthe most stupendous,
sublime, aud magnificent wonder oil The world Aug
20 1885.
The waters of Niagara
It's wondrous how they 90
A tumbliug from the rocks above
Down to the rocks below
They've run this way for many aday
And now shift the scene,
Iwould suggest Just for change
To run them up the stream. J'f'b'
Niagara, thy wonders who shall tell thy beau
ties who describe i? Are words meaning things 10
express the awe wherewith the soul Is struck
Theu has found none to describe thee. Thy form
and thy terrors; thy might and thy grandeur-thy
height and thy depththy roar and thy mist i've not
looked upon thee. Will verse, blank or rhyming,
tell ofthee As well might thy rear be made an ac
commandment To the soft breathings OF the Lutte Ill
thy form rest on canvass and be heng on tue wal
thine own dark waters. 1t is vanity in man-it Is
worse than vanity, to a tempt to describe thee by
Franklin JPiiist. Oct Is, 1887
Thou mighty stream unceasing in thy course,
Ant emblem thou of that eternal river
Whose purer waters from their deeper source
from he iount OF life, and now forever
We gaze on thee-ani faith with views sublime, -.
scars to that brighter world beyond the woes oil time
9Th month, 5th Gay, 1886 Ii
NIAGARA.
No words can convey an adequate ldea Oh the SUD
Unity of the works o. the Creator, as displayed IN
N,ayara Falls l, therefore, will not attempt IT,
but with the greatest OF the modern epic Poes' says
"Come then expressive silence, muse his praise
SCs,S l.. V. CRAWFORD, Alabama
Niagara Falls Aug. TO- 1886.
NIAGARA. Niagara. how dear art thou to
With thy sweetly glancng waters Niagara the iree
Eve look ed upo thy altar the homage oil my heaV
And thou Bright and Peerless forever We must part
But IN think office Niagaa distant foreign home,
And recollect thy grandeur Wherever may roam
Oh that could yet linger upon thy onward SHORES
Far from the world, its fooleries-lts cares,
But other duties call me and from thee must nee,
Yet fore er and forever will remember thee . :,
August 30, 1896. " - -
Rush on impetuous waters-rush
And mind not those who cry oh hush
IsPR0NPrU.
By G.. p Of the United States Army, while stanoinS
on Niagara Falls.
Oh Fame that urgest to the sod
Wet with wars battle spray,
Like Won deep rolling Thunder-god,
Thou metst IL foam away
May n, 1857
NIAGARA.
Thy angry foam
How it doth
Away from home
All-all alone.
BY Peter Snooks, junr, Toronto, L. &.
What is mixhtier III an thou, Oh, Niagara The
waters Of eternal lore and everlasting grace, that
flo from the throne Of Jesus and rush over the ada
MARITIME walls Of heaven, upon the hum lie souls oe
low-these waterfalls OF eternity are greater IMAM
thee Oh, Niagara BY John Smiih, Of Ne,c York.
Upons patient and careful examination OF the
Falls called Niagara, have come TO the conclusion
that any person to be taken down o. them he would
be in considerable danger Of receiving serious m
jury u,,
Notes on the abores Quite worthy OF Il apt Mar
ryatts tame and for once he has spoken truth -
No doubt-rry again Capt. Narrvatt, you
may have better luck next tinle-Jdcob Fditht" -
Narryatt must have been drunken than usuai--
oh that fouls would refrain from an exhibition OF
their mental imbecility in these pages
How wonderful are thy works, oh God!
ELIZA Is. NAp:Er.
Macon, Georgia.
NrAoNR.
In natures darkest gloomiest mood
She formed this wOndrous scene,
Then stood aoft and viewed the Hood
with wild aud thoughtful mein