Niagara Falls

Poetry Project  

John Joseph O'Regan

 

Queen of the Mist

 

All hail to the Queen of the Mist,
    Brave Anna Edson Taylor;
She has beaten all former records,
    By her courage, grit and valor.

This great heroine of our nation,
    Has won both fortune and fame;
Now people all over creation,
    Will praise this illustrious dame.

On the twenty-fourth day of October,
    In the year ninteen hundred and one;
The Queen of the Mist in a barrel,
    The risk of her life did run.

Over the wonderful Horseshoe Falls,
    Where the waters roar like thunder;
The barrel leaped within sight of all,
    With our intrepid lady wonder.

Down through the surging, foaming deep,
    She came in her barrel of oak;
The crowd with rapturous cheers did leap,
    When she was taken out and spoke.

This brave woman, who knows no deception,
    Did what no one did before;
And was given a hearty reception,
    When she landed safe on shore.

Here's to the Lady of the Cataract,
    Who has Spartan grit and valor;
Thrice, all hail, Queen of the Mist,
    Brave Anna Edson Taylor.

She has beaten the world's record,
    Her praises we will sing;
Although a little disfigured,
    She is certainly still in the ring.

 

Niagara Gazette. October 26, 1901.

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Source: Whalen, Dwight. The Lady Who Conquered Niagara: The Annie Edson Taylor Story. Brewer, Maine: EGA Books, 1990.

 

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