Niagara, it has been sung,
Can speak so loud without a tongue,
You hear its voice a mile hence;
But I a greater wonder know ―
A pretty woman, who, although
She has a tongue, keeps silence!
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
