Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-12
seeing Niagara.
lvTsR THOMAS oARLrLR.

born OF the Laks, leaped from this rock
ledge
There il First the broad, strong
; weep o! mighty river; emblem OF King
~ yer, concentrated, unbroken -; then
(se ond) froth and chatting, pallor, tur.
bultnce, wild uproar, vain resistance OF
hug stesdis-t boulders, waves wildly
dash Ng lsome as high as thirty feet),
stream torn asunder, two.pronged, with
sullen murmur of geminous rapids. To
what shall we liken this II not to the
grim menace OF weazened.faced, iron
heel.trodden, hungry Democracy, surg
ing and tossing purposeless, save to rush
downward with ever increasing veloc-
ity in one breath clamorous for bread
and for freedom, stomach and soul in
fecting, through all its lenses, their
restless imperative.
Then (Third) comes the cataract
majestic, terrible, suggestive alike OF
chaos and OF the most sublime order,
suggestive OF Annihilation, and of inf
mite power OF creation, and withal, 1877
feet high, with an annual recession, as
yet not clearly ascertained.
Below is more boiling and bubbling OF
rapids; then a stiff, rushing current
changed, once at least, by irm outjutting
wall OF rock, into indecision and even
retrogresssion, known as Whirlpool
this, too, emblematic OF much,
At last, with color OF marvellous
green, comparable TO nothing on earth
perhaps like the /" fourth foundation "
OF the New Jerusslem-with once more
the broad, strong, placid sweep OF
mighty river, royalty 1t enters the
Lake.
Through some thousands, likelier mil
lions, OF what men call years, with eager
precipitancy has this symbol OF all rule
or mis.rule, or utter lack called anarchy,
been getting itself made; what each
moment was the Observation-Disclosures
away by what, in itself weaker, is, by
eternal process, irresistible-water-
leaving q ditch, colossal, Titanic, but
still 8 ditch, and with much the same
value--drainage.
This drainage, too, is a mighty word,
could we but read it: Key-word me seems
to tearfulest, Titanic, sloughings-otf of
History be they French Revolution, or
Emancipation, or Reform.
But this time-lever; what Archimedes
can estimate its power This Before
and After with this Now for their full
crum Why silent prying and strain
ing, with anon q sturdy, CHEEKY, 70
Heave o true 10 Triumphe) startling
the sensitive air; followed inevitably,
by crash and dust and volatile fragments
Uath Bricks & Co.. and noise Heaven
reaching, and then by new order,
Symmetric, let US hope, Durable.
III.
Sometimes down this Niagara an occa.
sional canoe has shot-canoe with q man
in it, a man with all the hopes and fears
and passions of average humanity, with
red face or white. Other men have
stood in the larger, more sable canoe o
the shore-which also is shooting dowr
though through rarer fluid-and helC
out hands, or ropes, or planks, helpless
for here flesh and hemp and pine ar
alike vain. Water OF old the synonym o
weakness witness poured out lik,
water W is now stronger than muscle
which means power. o, man in tn
canoe on dashing You but meet you
fate with wider open eyes and pulls
quicker bounding and sgony littl
more concentrated than the voyagers il
that other bark who do not even look T.
see If they have oars,
AS they were in the beginning--So tn
dogma o! some hath it-centres of cree
ton whence men, star fish like, radiateC
so therr are now, manifestly centres {
attraction whittier mentor they al
not ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Throug
hot August days, in sunburnt pasture
sheep will stand with heads bunt agains
some tree, (patuls subtegmne fagi, wit
eyes shut and bodies crowded togethe
So men, with like instinct OF indoler
content, run their Sleeps heads int
such shelter as attracts (say cataract {
internationally and chew, idly, such foe
der as stable keepers vouchsafe.
As burning coal on the back OF Il
turtle, such is the August sun on Il
shell Of the rich.
Nor is this word shell wholly mea
ingless, but signifies many things.
among others crust that has harden,
around the peculiar growths of its po
SCISSOR and is conformed thereto. Sue
is the only true house-a developmer
not only independent of its owner, b
an outgrowth deposited by his ON
activity, conscious or unconscious
which he feels he cannot leave behil
without species Of dissection, witho'
leaving part of himself. The nous
methinks, should be but thicker Gu
Gle a little looser and more diyestlt
than the real skin.
Whose is not seeking merely tree
post against which he may brace b
head and stand with other sheep
lethargic immobility, will find in Mia
ara somewhat to move his deepest fe
ings. Let him go, first, to Lewiston
the lake, II possible, and then wa
slowly and earnestly along the bank
the river; stopping often, often descen
ing to the brink, receiving into his mil
the true impression of every bend a
ripple, until he sees before him, as t
rightful goal of his pilgrimage, the Fa
OF Niagara.
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