'NEATH NIAGARA FALLS
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[These lines came to me as I stood in the underground tunnel beneath the Horse Shoe Falls and watched the mighty volumes of water pouring down upon the rocks beneath.]
While standing 'neath Niagara Falls A voice to me from Heaven calls And asks me in deep, thundering tone, Mortal, can you stand alone? Do you believe there is no God Who made these waters at His nod? Are works like these but tricks of earth? Did nature only give them birth? Or was there an immortal hand Brought them to life by His command? The roaring waters seem to say— "To God, our Maker, homage pay."