Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

J.E. Howard

Untitled

"O! not to sing presumptuous praise,
In studied words and measured lays,
        This scenery survey --
Omnipotence is imaged here,
Let vainer homage disappear,
        And kneel and pray.

 

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Written October 17, 1848 by J.E. Howard of Detroit, Michigan.

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