Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

M. F. D.

Untitled

These are Thy works, O God!   Let man approach
With cautious reverence, and behold and wonder,
And with profoundest awe adore and worship Thee.
Ten thousand thunders in the rolling flood
Send forth their peal in deep-toned harmony,
Sounding their anthem of eternal praise
To Thee, thou great First Cause.   Man hears Thy voice
From out the deep abyss, ― and overwhelmed
With sense of Thy dread presence manifest,
Amazed and struck with speechless awe, he shrinks
Appalled away.

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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