Meets then again a verdant island long,

Gathers the weeping brook, and swells more strong,

Widening the swift high-mounted torrent flies

Like lightning bursting from the thund’ring skies.

The time-worn cliffs, retiring to their source,

Shews countless ages it has run its course.

The Schlosser fall eight hundred ninety-two

Will count the feet how broad this current grew.

Two thousand with two hundred crescent line

Will the full breadth of Horse-Shoe Fall define.