<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416060" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines on Niagaras [sic] Charms and Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gazing on rapid's mighty sea,<br>Struggling fiercely to be free,<br>But drawn downward in its course<br>By gravitation's wonderous force,<br>O'er those perpendicular walls,<br>Hurled 'mong mighty rocks it falls,<br>Causing the earth tothrob and shake<br>Like to the termor of earthquake ;<br>Thus the world's greatest wonder<br>Reverberates likes peals of thunder.<br>Reshrined with mist and beauteous glow<br>Of varied tints of the rainbow,<br>Most glorious sight the human eye<br>Hath ever seen, beneath the sky ;<br>Along these banks none ever trod<br>But did feel grateful to his God<br>For lavishing, with bounteous green ;<br>Plunged by whirlpool's dread commotion,<br>It becomes a seething ocean<br>Where furies join in surging dance<br>From centre to circumstance.<br>This is the favourite abode<br>Of Neptune, mightiest sea god-<br>He hat hdecreed none shall survive<br>Who will into this vortex dive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Webb swam the English channel brave,<br>Like sea bird he did love to lave<br>His breast upon the mightiest wave,<br>Alas ! Found here a watery grave.<br>Torrent onward rushes, frantic<br>On its course to the Atlantic,<br>But on its way doth gently flow<br>Through blue Lake Ontario ;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rejoicing on its way it smiles,<br>Kissing the shores of thousand isles,<br>Mingling with St. Lawrence motion<br>It soon is blended with the ocean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416060" data-title="Lines on Niagaras [sic] Charms and Death de James McIntyre" data-description="Gazing on rapid's mighty sea, Struggling fiercely to be free, But drawn downward in its course By gravitation's wonderous force, O'er those perpendicular walls, Hurled 'mong mighty rocks it falls, Causing the earth tothrob and shake Like to the te..."></div> </div> </div>

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