Festival of song: a series of evenings with the poets . Erainard, Finkney. P^ead. Cutter. Prentice. Cist. Gallagher. Perkins. Byron, Ciabbe. Seott, Hogg, Lamb, White. MonLgori:ery, fJoleridge, Poe. Hemans, touthey. Moore, Bryant. Hunt. T/elby. Nichols, ^HAT the stupendous cataract of Niagara, with its picturesque associations, should have inspired the homage of many a gifted votary ot the muse, need not provoke surprise. Yet any attempt i6: to depict a scene so essentially august and sublime,—transcending,indeed, the limits of the loftiest intellect adequately to portray,—must of neces
Festival of song: a series of evenings with the poets . Erainard, Finkney. P^ead. Cutter. Prentice. Cist. Gallagher. Perkins. Byron, Ciabbe. Seott, Hogg, Lamb, White. MonLgori:ery, fJoleridge, Poe. Hemans, touthey. Moore, Bryant. Hunt. T/elby. Nichols, ^HAT the stupendous cataract of Niagara, with its picturesque associations, should have inspired the homage of many a gifted votary ot the muse, need not provoke surprise. Yet any attempt i6: to depict a scene so essentially august and sublime,—transcending,indeed, the limits of the loftiest intellect adequately to portray,—must of necessity fail to present it in all its stateliness and poet Brainards lines are, we think, among the best thathave appeared on the subject :— The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain,While I look upward to thee ! It would seemAs if God poured thee from His hollow hand,And hung His bow upon thine awful front;And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to himWho dwelt in Patmos for his Saviours sake, The sound of many waters ; and had badeThy flood to chronicle the ages notch His centuries in the eternal calleth unto deep. And what are hear the question of that voice sublime !Oh, what are all the notes t
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