“Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niaga´ra stuns with thundering sound.”
Moore, in “The Fudge Family,” conforms to the modern pronunciation:
“Taking instead of rope, pistol, or dagger, a
Desperate dash down the Falls of Niagara.”
In Braham’s song, “The Death of Nelson,” the second syllable is accented:
“’Twas in Trafalgar Bay
We saw the foemen lay.”
But Byron, in “Childe Harold,” lays stress on the last syllable:
“Alike the Armada’s pride and spoils of Trafalgar.”