Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-31
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For the Bellows Falls Times.
Way Notes.-The. D.

FRIEND SWAIN A writing desk in
the cabin or on the deck of beautiful
steamer on the waters Of Lake Erie is
not the most barren of thought which
might he conceived. is If the easiest
place to write one might find. There is
much to admire upon the waters but it
soon becomes monotonous, and the eye
and mind tire, as also the body. Feel
ing thus | determined to complete what
| had to say of Niagara after | left the
boat. My readers, many of them, have
visited the Falls in person and can better
describe them doubtless, than the writer,
Some, however, have never done so, and
will expect us to do the best we can for
their benefit. We will assure them that
if they ever visit the scene they will ac-
knowledge with the writer the truth and
force of the poets words:
But as for us-it seems
Scarce lawful with our broken tones to speak
Familiarly of thee-Methinks to tint
Thy glorious features with our pencils point
Were PROCLAMATION.
Thou dost make the soul
wondering witness of thy majesty;
| And while il rushes with dcirious JOY
| To tread thy vestibue, dost chain its step,
| And check its rapture with the humblins view
! OF its own n0thingneSs, bidding IT stand
In the dread presence Of the Invisible >,
| As if to answer to its God through thee
Thus does one feel inspired to speak as
NE for the first time rests his eye upon
the mighty rush of waters at Niagara.
Such grandeur, and such lifting of
ones self right out of the realm of the
beautiful up to the very crowning point
of the sublime in nature, we never wit
messed or experienced before. | pity
that man who can stand under the fall
ing spray of Niagara, which waters the
earth for miles around, and feel the ire
NOR of earth occasioned by the roll OF
those mighty waters, and not feel his
heart grow perceptibly within him. II
certainly makes one feel broader and in
every way greater man, to see such
works of God. Almost involuntarily he
repeats the poets words again:
" Flow onforever in thy glorious robe
| of terror and Of beauty-God hath set
| His rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloud
Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give
Thy voice of thunder power to speak OF hlm
| Eternally-bdding the life of man
Keep silence, and upon thy rocky alter pour
| Incense of awe-struek praise.
NV readers, nothing would give me
greater pleasure than adequately to de
scribe to you the scene of this might,
cataract as it is even in my own mind.
have seen some waterfalls before, bu
this is the climax of all. Not the slight
est tint of muddy water can be discover
ed above or below the falls, which add
| wonderfully to its natural beauty. A
Won stand on the banks below and lool
down into the bed Of the river, a dis
tance of hundred and fifty feet or more
and see the mighty stream rush along
and observe the pale green color of tn
water and its perfect purity from all SEQ
iment of any kind, you cannot do Other
wise than silently admire the scene an
adore the Great Maker of all worlds.
Perhaps l am off the track slightly 70
a secular newspaper article. If so m
only apology is the sublimity of tn
scene which we use as a text.
There are many attractive things col