With a single privilege.
"I wonder how many times the lakes have all
Been emptied over here?
Why Clinton didn't feed the Grand Canal
From hence, I think is queer."
The most graceful verses on Niagara ever written by a resident are the following by the late Colonel Porter, who was an artist both with the pencil and the pen. They were written for a young relative in playful explanation of a sketch he had drawn at the top of a page in her album, representing the Falls in the distance, and an Indian chief and two Europeans in the foreground:
"An Artist, underneath his sign (a masterpiece, of course)
Had written, to prevent mistakes, 'This represents a horse':
So ere I send my Album Sketch, lest connoisseurs should err,
I think it well my Pen should be my Art's interpreter.