A Dialogue by John Smyth et al.

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The title page of the Table Rock Album


John Smyth:

I should have surely written a poem here;
But my muse has got water-logged

Sir Walter Scott:

“Water-logged,” Mister Smyth, are you sure that the log
In the wy of your muse is not swimming in grog?

Ettrick Shepherd:

He’s a gomeril, that Smyth — a pure feckless body —
Wha the de’il can write poetry wha canna drink toddy?
What a pour o’ Glenlivit — an ocean and mair —
It would tak’ to mix up that cauld water down there!

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

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Untitled by E.S. Smith

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

Not in the forest vast, when winds awake,
With giant energies and mighty power —
Not on the boundless deep when storms arise,
And tempests loudly roar, is nature seen
In grandest garb arrayed — but where Niagara’s
Thundering voice is heard, and where her waves,
In angry majesty are seen to pour;
Then doth she wear a garb that wins from man
The incense of his wonder, awe and praise.

 

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.

Untitled by John B. Schunk

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I love to roam o’er the swelling foam
‡‡ Of the dark blue ocean’s waves;
When the bursting storm in its wildest form
‡‡ With the fierce wind madly raves;
When the writhing shark, by his form so dark,
‡‡ Is seen mid the rushing spray,
So I like the sleet of the water sheet
‡‡ Of the grand Niagaray!

 

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.

Untitled by S.B.

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Loud roars the waters O,
‡‡ Loud roars the waters O,
When I come to the Falls again,
‡‡ I hope they will not spatter so.

 

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.

A Dialogue by S. & M.

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The title page of the Table Rock Album

S.:

Fall on, fall on, ye mighty Falls ―
I’m going now to make my calls;
When I come back I hope I will
Just find you falling, falling still.

M.:

But lest you lose your chance, my friend,
You’d better stay and see the end;
Lake Erie’s “packing up her awls”
Perhaps she may discharge the Falls.

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.