. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. , as some more compact mass ofwater makes its fall, a new note strikes the ear, andunder all is the heavy beating of the air as if of soundtoo low for the range of human hearing. It has alwaysseemed to me as if much of the voice of Niagara mightbe to us inaudible.* It is strange that no great poem has yet been writ-ten for Niagara. Many have tried their hand, butthere is nothing of established fame, nothing that isknown for itself as well as for
. The Niagara book : a complete souvenir of Niagara Falls : containing sketches, stories and essays--descriptive, humorous, historical and scientific. , as some more compact mass ofwater makes its fall, a new note strikes the ear, andunder all is the heavy beating of the air as if of soundtoo low for the range of human hearing. It has alwaysseemed to me as if much of the voice of Niagara mightbe to us inaudible.* It is strange that no great poem has yet been writ-ten for Niagara. Many have tried their hand, butthere is nothing of established fame, nothing that isknown for itself as well as for its subject. There isline after line, however, of Coleridges Hymn to MontBlanc which if once thought of at Niagara will bealways thought of there. Verse after verse is curi-ously apposite. Those who have never made thetranslation from mountain to cataract will find in it awealth of new associations for both poem and place. *In Scribners Magazine for February, 1881, there is an article on TheMusic of Niagara, by Eugene He writes the chords of its dif-ferent harmonies, but finds them /our octaves lower than the key boards ofour Wm^ \l^,
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