Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

J. Hall

On the Death of a Man Who Fell Over the Falls

What can more awful be, perhaps you say,
Than to meet death in such a sudden way?
What can more awful be?    Have you not heard?
I'll tell you then — to meet it unprepared.

 

J. Hall was from Weymouth, England.

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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