Farewell, O Niagara!  rolling in splendor,
‡‡Thy beauty is matchless, thy power is supreme;
And now, ere I leave thee, my homage I render —
‡‡To return to the world I must rouse from my dream.

In a trance I have been, while sublimest emotions
‡‡Have crowded the chambers of soul and of thought;
But my dreams of delight and my deepest devotions
‡‡Are faded away – there’s a hole in my coat!

 

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

This link takes you to the scanned version of  the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust

See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.

The Falls are all I fancied them;
‡‡But O, they are not mine;
And if they were I’d wish them then,
‡‡Not what they are — but wine.

 

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

This link takes you to the scanned version of  the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust

See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.

Fair Albion, smiling, sees her sons depart
To trace the birth and nursery of art.
Noble their object, glorious are their aims,
They go behind the Falls — and write their names!

 

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

This link takes you to the scanned version of  the 1855 version of Table Rock Album from the Hathi Trust

See the Table of Contents of the Table Rock Album on this site.