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Excerpt from Canada Seventy Years Ago: Or Prince Edward's Visit to Niagara Through glare and dust at evening's hour Say, you have reached the gorge of power, The headlong haste they did pursue Arrested, you a picture view. A picture to which the opposing rays, Of Sol on moving water lays Noiseless and clear, without a glare - Unawed, as when too close you are. Be not in haste to approach the wonder, But like the lightning without thunder, Arrest your course, view it awhile, And with my lay your time beguile Ye denizens of cities, list, I pray To this rough measure of a sylvan lay Though one from foreign lands in this I bring, 'Tis not of courts, a people rude I sing. Forget not ye who now in palace car, Ride swiftly, smoothly to the scene from far. How hard it was the way for them to tread, Who o'er this forest darkened road first sped, Think not this epic for the scene too high, Niagara can with all the Grecian valleys vie; In this the thought directed to as far between As is this spot from the farthest you have been. When up the gorge a mile or two you ride, And reach this wonder on the Canada side, And while from coach to elevator step, Prepared to see the myriads of water leap. Look back and see yon gossamer span, Work, great as earth displays of man; A train disturbs the cataract's roar, Soon it rolls on - that sight is o'er. It's past; and grandeur as of yore Reigns, ruler of the scene once more, Improvements cease to intervene, When cataract alone is seen. Regard again a Fall whose power, Existed ages as this hour, And will to future ages last, As strong as now, and as the past. What spot imposing more to stand, And drink the water from your hand, While Iris tips the rough rocks now, And leaves are waving round your brow. No vigorous shoot obstructs the way, No wood's inhabitant strikes with dismay, Cleared all those terrors from the road O'er which in their reverse our fathers trod. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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