Niagara by Benjamin Rosenbaum

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Niagara Falls Up Close
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The knife of the sun at Niagara,
And the swallows,
Are beautiful;
But the voice and movement of the waters
Are gigantic—
A thousand naked men
Mad with the wine of beauty.


Source:  Poetry, vol. 23, no. 2 (Nov. 1923)

N.B.  This is not Benjamin Rosenbaum the science fiction writer (who was born in 1969)

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