Category: Doggerel
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Untitled by Anonymous as Reported by X.Y.
Niagara Falls are a wonderful scene, Regularly calculated to make the mind serene ; With their mighty dash and tremendous spray, They roll and they roll, repeatedly every day !” ********************************************** These Falls have never been congealed completely, In this, weak men are agreed, neatly! Source: X. Y. “Poetry of Young America.” The Massachusetts Teacher…
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Untitled by Capting Ralph Stackpole
‘Tis did—my braggin’ days is o’er, I’ll brag of old SALT* now no more. The look of pride which once I wore Is gone, alas! my heart are tore ; The proud, firm footstep, mine of yore Are gone now, too, gone ; my eyes is sore, And little scaldin’ tears does pour, When I does think that old SALT’S roar, Was made…
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Untitled by Anonymous
I came to see ; I thought to write ; I am but ——— dumb. Source: Holley, George W., ed. The Falls of Niagara. Baltimore: A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1883 Originally from The Table Rock Albums. Click to see the Table of Contents on this site.
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Niagara Sulks by Norman R. Jaffray
I’VE seen them come, I’ve seen them go, ‡‡Too numerous to mention, And I put on a mighty show ‡‡To capture their attention. I hurl me boldly down the cliff ‡‡And thrash myself to spray, Yet none of them would notice if ‡‡I ran the other way. I think it’s very rude to me ‡‡That…
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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous by Evan MacColl
Lines suggested by a glance at the visitor’s Album, kept at the Museum, Niagara Falls. Give up, ye would-be bards, your rhymes to tag here so, In vain you rack your brains to paint Niagara. A theme which even Milton’s muse might beggar, you Had better let alone when at Niagara. About Lodore right well…