How poor! how very poor is praise from
man!
Poor to Him praised, is all created praise.
When I behold this scene, and think that all
is of less value than a single soul --
O were the whole cast universe a wreck,
That awful wreck inanimate were less
Than one lost image of the Architect!
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
