Niagara

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3 id="id00333" style="margin-top: 3em"><i>NIAGARA</i></h3> <p id="id00334">A ceaseless, awful, falling sea, whose sound<br/> Shakes earth and air, and whose resistless stroke<br/> Shoots high the volleying foam like cannon smoke!<br/> How dread and beautiful the floods, when, crowned<br/> By moonbeams on their rushing ridge, they bound<br/> Into the darkness and the veiling spray;<br/> Or, jewel-hued and rainbow-dyed, when day<br/> Lights the pale torture of the gulf profound!<br/> So poured the avenging streams upon the world<br/> When swung the ark upon the deluge wave,<br/> And, o'er each precipice in grandeur hurled,<br/> The endless torrents gave mankind a grave.<br/> God's voice is mighty, on the water loud,<br/> Here, as of old, in thunder, glory, cloud!<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />