Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

Liz

Untitled

Niagara's tide is pouring,
    Swift down the mighty steep;
Loud as the thunder roaring,
    The bounding waters leap.

A sheet of foam descending,
    In boiling surf below ―
The white spray high ascending,
    Pure as the driven snow.

Rare beauty there is glowing,
    When glittering sunbeams play,
The rainbow tints bestowing,
    Upon the rising spray.

 

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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