3 quotes found
""Niagara! wonder of this western world, And all the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of cataracts!" an angel who had been O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus—his bright wings furled— And knelt to Nature first, on this wild cliff unseen."
"Fools-to-free-the-world, they go, Primeval hearts from Buffalo. Red cataracts of France to-day Awake, three thousand miles away, An echo of Niagara The cataract Niagara."
"Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathomed and resistless. 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 Him Eternally—bidding the lip of man Keep silence, and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise."