Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

Anonymous

Untitled

 

As on the stormy beach I strayed,
    Where frowning rocks prevailed,
O! thus my own, my dearest maid,
    My hard, hard fate bewailed: --
"O! Harry, dear, you'll break your neck --
    Upon my soul you will;
And if you do, you precious fool,
    I'll lick you -- so I will!"

 

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Source: Table Rock Album and Sketches of the Falls and Scenery Adjacent. Buffalo: Steam Press of Thomas and Lathrops, copyright by Jewett, Thomas & Co.,1856c.1848