The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-02
For the Citizen.
THE FALLS, OF NIAGARA.

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BYDE. ST., ADDRESSED TO MRS. 8. E. L.
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Years may roll on, but never shall their rae
yB:i93g gt to ny eye anothsT Z, iilss this
The sentiments profound OF awe and bliss
/ No never can my mind hereafter miss
5a he I@gs6S 50 sT9PglX there eHggadyed 1gggd
From which the living torrent rose anC
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Thrice have I seen thee, wonder of the
UnequaIed cataract! my country's pride
With all thy weight OF waters downward
AS Il in earth's deep bowels thou wo5ldst
Superior, Huron, Erie's blended tide!
And that foaming tide emerge have seen,
Dpt ASt BY thy 9 spray Yin in ts
At thy dread foot I stood and Viewed the
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And shall now atteulpt to body forth
Its mighty features in descriptive rhyme
Bold effort and perhaps of little worth;
Yet, some tribute doth belong at this time,
70 Natures master-work from mortal
And now, dear reader, the effort don't con-
denim,
But rouse thy spirit to conception strong,
Amidst the terrible, the beautiful, the
grandl
The sweep majestic of the rivers brow,
Which, far above, extends from shore to
The island, like a foam-encircied PROV:
Heaven's bright blue arch rising behind
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The lake-born torrents as with ceaseless
over the everlasting rocks they roll,
Impatient, to the dizzy leaps before;
All rush at once upon ihe startled soul,
At the first rapid glance your eye throws O'er
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But sight is mingled at the heart with sound,
The loud, the deafening thunder OF the
Which seems at drst sensation to confound,
The brain to madden, and the breast appal,
The dazzling whiteness of the sheeted foam,
Which to the eye appears snow-built
on which is reared a bright ceruIean dome,
That poets might well take for 1ancy's airy
home! eH - --. F. r-
The clouds of rising and dissolving spray,
Which wave and wGnton in the gusty
On which the sunbeams bold their magic
PaiRting gay rainbows of ch.giOriOus
That change their shape and color like the
OF soft and ductiIe youth with every scene;
BOW Swelling upward free and qnceonhned. e ri.
Now bursting-leavingb but the black abyss
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The dark and dripping Gins which overhead
Rise. like the war-built towers Of ancient
time,
Dreaming ueuaQce, ana inspiring urGau
Which echo back, with emphasis sublime,
The cataraet's awful sounds in measured
4a8 chime,
OIllng along the deep and distant pass,
Until at length the blood-stained heights
Where Sweiied the roar of -battlc-where,
alas
Our country's sons and foes feIIfn one min
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Then, the still darker torrent at my feet,
Whose green.wFeathed Hoods Tboiled up
from the abyss5 - go ~ - -
To whose unfathomed depths, in one broad
sheet, -ssr : Bees > ~ .r-
They Numbering fcll-whOse. tides with
-hOrrtd hiss, .-- & -.--. f.. -.
Like .venomous serpents vast do seem, I
wis,
Writhing in pain and madly rushing by,
Toward far Ontario's bed,-aL al Of this
Must have struck on the heart, the ear, the
To give the awful sense ofits subIimity.
o, there thought, and thought did well be-
seem, ... -
y scene SO full of fearful majesty Is
If with such wonders his creation TEEN,
What must the glory OF their Author be !
With what deep reverence and humility,
Ought we to bow before His mighty hand!
Lord Cf Creation and eternity!
Shall human pride not quail at thy conf
mand 2 a $3.50
The thunder Of thy power, o, who can un-
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