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Here on this jutting headland where the trees	A
Spread a dusk carpet for the sun to cast	B
And count his golden guineas on we'll stay	C
For hence is the best prospect of the Falls	D
Whose roar no more astounds the startled ear	E
As when we bent and marked it from the bridge	F
Seething beneath and bounding like a steed	G
A tameless steed with mane of flying spray	C
Between the pillars rising sheer above	H
But mark how soft its clamor now is grown	I
Incessant rush like that of vernal groves	J
When like some sweet surprise a wand'ring wind	K
Precursor of the coming rain rides down	L
From a gray cloud and sets their leafy tongues	M
A gabbing of the fresh impending shower	N
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There runs the dam and where its dark line cuts	O
The river's sheen already you may see	P
The ripples glancing to the fervid sun	Q
As if the waves had couched a hundred spears	R
And tossed a hundred plumes of fleecy foam	S
In answer to the challenge of the Falls	D
Blown on his bugle from the battlements	T
Of his subaqueous city's rocky walls	D
And now you see their maddened coursers charge	U
Hear wavy hoof strokes on the jagged stones	V
That pave the pathway of the current beat	W
While billowing they ride to ringing lists	X
With shout and yell and toss their hundred plumes	Y
And shock their riply spears in tournament	Z
Upon the opposing billows' shining shields	A2
Now sinks a pennon but 'tis raised again	B2
There falls or breaks a spear or sparkling sword	C2
A shattered helmet flies in flakes of foam	S
And on the frightened wind hisses away	C
And o'er it all you hear the sound the roar	D2
Of waves that fall in onset or that strive	E2
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On on they come a beautiful mad troop	F2
On on along the sandy banks that fling	G2
Red pebble freckled arms far out to stay	C
The riotous waves that ride and hurl along	H2
In casque and shield and wind their wat'ry horns	I2
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And there where thousand oily eddies whirl	J2
And turn and turn like busy wheels of steel	K2
Is the Big Eddy whose deep bottom none	Q
As yet have felt with sounding plummet line	L2
Like a huge giant wily in its strength	M2
The Eddy lies and bending from the shore	D2
The spotted sycamores have looked and looked	N2
Watching his motions as a school boy might	O2
A sleeping serpent coiled upon his path	P2
So long they've watched that their old backs have grown	I
Hump'd gnarl'd and crooked nor seem they this to heed	G
But gaze and gaze and from the glossy waves	Q2
Their images stare back their wonderment	Z
Mayhap they've seen the guardian Genius lie	R2
At its dark bottom in an oozy cave	S2
Of shattered rock recumbent on his mace	T2
Of mineral his locks of dripping green	U2
Circling a crown of ore his fishy eyes	V2
Dull with the monotony of his aqueous realms	W2
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But when the storm's abroad and smites the waves	Q2
With stinging lashes of the myriad rain	X2
Or scars with thunder some ancestral oak	Y2
Sire of a forest then he wakes in wrath	P2
And on the dark foundations of the stream	Z2
Stands monarch of the flood in iron crown	L
And murmurs till the tempest fiends above	H
Stand stark with awe and all the eddy breaks	A3
To waves like those whose round and murky bulks	A3
Ribbed white with foam wallow like battened swine	L2
Along yon ridge of ragged rock o'erstrewn	L2
With petrifactions of Time's earliest dawn	L2
Mollusks and trilobites and honey combs	A3
Of coral white and here and there a mass	A3
Of what seems writhing reptiles there convolved	Z
And in one moment when the change did come	B3
Which made and unmade continents and seas	A3
That teemed and groaned with dire monstrosities	A3
Had froze their glossy spines to sable stones	A3
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There where uprises a dun knoll o'erstrewn	L2
With black and rotten stumps in the mid river	N
Erst rose an island green and beautiful	C3
With willows beeches dappled sycamores	A3
Corn Island on whose rich and fertile soil	D3
The early pioneers a colony	L2
Attempted once to found ere ever this	A3
Fair City of the Falls now echoing to	Z
The tingling bustle of its busy trade	Z
Was dreamed of Here the woodman built	Z
His rude log cabin here he sowed his maize	A3
Here saw it tassel 'neath the Summer's smile	E3
And glance like ranks of feathered Indians thro'	N
The misty vistas of the broken woods	A3
Here reaped and sheaved its wealth of ivory ears	A3
When Autumn came like a brown Indian maid	Z
Tripping from the pink sunset o'er the hills	A3
That blushed for love and cast beneath her feet	Z
Untold of gold in leaves and yellow fruit	Z
Here lived the pioneer and here he died	Z
And mingled his rough dust with the raw earth	F3
Of that long isle which now disparted stands	A3
And nothing save a bed of limestone rock	G3
Where in the quarry you may see the blast	Z
Spout heavenward the dust and dirt and stone	L2
And flap and pound its echoes 'round the hills	A3
Like giant strokes of some huge airy hammer	N
And that lone mound of stumpy earth to show	H3
That there once stood an isle as rich and fair	N
As any isle that rises up to kiss	A3
The sun and dream in tropic seas of balm	I3
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There lies the other half of what was once	A3
Corn Island a broad channel flows between	L2
And this low half mantled with a dwarf growth	J3
Of what was once high brakes and forest land	Z
Goose Island now is named In the dim morn	L2
Ere yet the East assumes her faintest blush	K3
Here may you hear the melancholy snipe	L3
Piping or see her paddling in the pools	A3
That splash the low bed of the rocky isle	E3
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Once here the Indian stole in natural craft	Z
From brush to brush his head plumes like a bird	Z
Flutt'ring and nodding 'mid the undergrowth	J3
In his brown hand the pliant polished bow	M3
And at his back his gaudy quiver filled	Z
With tufted arrows headed with blue flint	Z
And while the deep flamingo colored West	Z
Flamed on his ruddy cheek its airy fire	N
Strung his quick bow and thro' the gray wild goose	A3
That rose with clamor from the rushy pool	N3
Launched a fleet barb crested with quills perchance	A3
Plucked yestere'en from its dead mate's gray wing	G2
To decorate the painted shaft that should	Z
Dabble to day their white in its mate's blood	Z
It falling gasping at its moccasined feet	Z
Its wild life breathed away while the glad brave	S2
Whooped to the sunset and yon faint blue hills	A3
Answered his exultation with a whoop	F2

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