Tag: religious
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Niagara Visited in Autumn by Gurdon Huntington
Here in great Nature’s gorgeous fane we stand, Where grand libation endlessly is poured, And incense soars aloft forevermore : Th’ Almighty King the offering receives, And on the rising cloud of homage hangs His bow of promise and of grace. How fair and gladdening ( as a dream of love And of the pure,…
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Thoughts On Niagara by Michael McGuire
I stood where swift Niagara pours its flood Into the darksome caverns where it falls, And heard its voice, as voice of God, proclaim The power of Him, who let it on its course Commence, with the green earth’s first creation ; And I was where the atmosphere shed tears, As giving back the…
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Niagara by William Wetmore Story
‡‡Like hell-hounds from their slumber waking, And panting madly for their prey, ‡‡Their whitening manes in fury shaking, And howling down their rocky way, ‡‡From Erie’s sleep, in rushing rapids breaking, ‡‡‡‡Storms down Niagara — Wildly towards their dread abyss Hurrying they rage, and foam, and hiss, Over their shelving precipice ; Yet pausing on…
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Ode to Niagara by William Chambers Wilbor
From far-famed lofty Table Rock, in wide- Extending vision, I behold, entranced, The magnitude and symmetry of thy Proportions. In one grand panoramic Picture thou stretchest out before me — thy Spacious overflowing gulf, thy distant Falling flood, an avalanche of silver Sheen, thy wooded islands’ intervening Crags, and, near at hand, thy massive bending…
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Niagara by Benjamin Copeland
Majestic symbol of eternal power ! ‡‡Dread oracle of eons all unknown ! Before thy presence Pomp and Passion cower, — ‡‡All men are equal at thy awful throne. Abashed, the eager babble of the mart, — ‡‡To silence shamed, the vulgar greed for gain ; No more ambition goads the weary heart, ‡‡And Toil…