Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-14

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f.s,ssssf A HAPPY LOVER:
In after years when memory comcs H
To cheer US in our happy homes, SD
A voice amid the social cheer II ~. .,r.l
Stall speak OF what we witnessed here.
No time, no change, no chance shall sever
s,se The links that bind our hearts.
Among the contributors to this farrago
the utter idiots who write what no on
cares to read, and which it is a wonder
that any ordinary, decent person, cares u
write, are the most numerous. Ihere Is
however, touch of humor about
THE NEW YORK STOCK BROKER e.
who wrote the following:
Icame from Wall street
II 10 see this water sheet; .... ri
VS. Having seen this water sheet
fresnrn to Wall street.
Next in order 10 the writings are the
sentimental and the pious, or affectedly
pious people, who indulge in heroics-
mock, not real, and in ambitious moral
reflections on the beauty and sublimity of
the spectacle. One man dating from Dublin
says: Forgive these lines they emulate
from the pen of one who derives his in
spiratjon from the sublime works which
surround him. Poetry is not my forte. /
was never found to be brilliant writer,
but silence is not only the admiration
which these great works deserve" I'm
pressed with the idea of saying something,
though he confesses he is not able to say
it, he'tells all future travellers who may
read what he has written, that The has
slipped to the very dregs the cup of Attic
ton. "(taking his affection daintily, slipping
it, not drinking it, } ''but that in spite of
all he cannot gaze upon Niagara without
feeling how little, how very, very little
and insignificant are his sorrows when
compared with the ills of the ny!' An
other who would be eloquent if he knew
how, writes his farewell to Niagara
Thou land of water power in thy majes-
tic glory. Thou art all and more than all
my soul conceived thee! Inever dreamed
thy wonders to be so numberless and vast.
Beauty in union with grandeur here fill
and elevate and satisfy my soul - The
MORE PRosAIC sCRIBBLER,
Who follows in verse, writes better, and
very much TO the point
While standing under the Horseshoe Fall
Didn't il look great, didn't look SMALL
One who aspired to the sublime, and
foundered into the absurd, writes: when
God went forth to the work of creation at
tended by shining array of seraphim and
cherubim, these living ones yelled their
faces and said, Lord Of Glory, stay Thy
hand or we die Once more said the
Almighty, and inanimate creation is COM
plete.' He spake, and the mountains
started back, and ocean heaved affrighted
as Niagara sprang into birth" Why ocean
should have been alarmed at fall of fresh
water, so many hundreds of miles from
the shore, and the whole immense volume
OF whose waters, poured into her capa-
cious breast, IS of no more account than a
drop in bucket, the writer would find it
difficult to explain. Another enraptured
traveller,
NOT QUITE SO RIDICULOUS,
is struck with as much admiration by the
beauty Of the rainbow, that in the clear
sunshine always smiles upon the torrent,
rs BY the granduer of the Fall, and re-
lieves his soul by writing: 1.-The most
stupendous work of nature! The noun
tains, oceans, lakes, cataracts, are great
specimens of Gods works, but here his
benifcence is indicated by the perpetual
rainbow. What mind is not enlarged,
what soul is not filled with ennobling emo
ions by the contemplation OF such WON
ders Let man behold with awe, and learn
humanity As if the benficence of God
were never clear to this shallow brain I'M
til he saw the rainbow, and as if the
mountains and the ocean were not as much
proof of benificence as the iris in the
spray! One visitor, pestered no doubt
by this mock piety and crooked logic
and who modestly signs himself 'tSnooks"
very properly rebukes the glagee devotion
of people who, if they are taken at their
words, never had an elevated thought of
the Deity until they saw Niagara He
says THE most Insignificant plant, the
minutest insect. the smallest drop of water,
when examined through the medium of
the microscope, reveals the existence of an
almighty creating and sustaining power"
Must, then, the circumstances Of large
body OF water rushing down an inclined
plane, and over precipice OF one hun
dred and fifty feet in height, urging mere
ly by the power of gravitation, be selected
as the most striking demonstration OF the
greatness Of the AImightyP The practical
and philosophic Shocks is right in his in
quiry.