Tag: poetry

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table
The title page of the Table Rock Album


Look, look up; the spray is dashing,
‡‡Roaring waters foam and sweep, —
O’er your head the torrent dashing,
‡‡Hurls its grandeur down the steep.
O, mortal man beneath such splendours,
‡‡How trifling, mean, and vain, and poor!
Prepare, then, sinner, to surrender
‡‡All thoughts unhallowed and impure.
Terrific is the scene around you —
‡‡Mark ye how wild the waters ring;
Columns of wreathing cloud surround you —
‡‡This is Thy work, O God, our King!

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.

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table
The title page of the Table Rock Album

If a fellow should slide down from off a slippery stick,
‘T would be worse nor any Cat-a-lip-tic;
And if he should go blind, ‘t is a plain fact,
From viewing — ‘t would be a cataract

 

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.

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table
The title page of the Table Rock Album

I stare with wonder, and alas!
‡‡How bad a body feels,
To think how difficult this pass
‡‡To emigrating eels!

 

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 Anonymous

table
The title page of the Table Rock Album

How poor! how very poor is praise from man!
Poor to Him praised, is all created praise.
When I behold this scene, and think that all
is of less value than a single soul —
O were the whole cast universe a wreck,
That awful wreck inanimate were less
Than one lost image of the Architect!

 

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 Anonymous

table
The title page of the Table Rock Album

Hark, hark!  ‘t is Niagara’s mighty roar,
As o’er the ledge St. Lawrence’ waters pour.
Father Omnipotent!  in this we see
An emblem fit of vast eternity;
As downwards in their course the waters flow,
And then are lost in the abyss below,
So haste thy creatures onward to that bourne
From whence no travelers shall e’er return.

 

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.