In 1880, Mr. E. Harris-Bickford, of Camborne, published a long poem on the Falls of Niagara, it also was written in imitation of Southey’s Cataract of Lodore.
THE OLD MAN’S COMFORTS
AND HOW HE GAINED THEM.
“You are old, father William,” the young man cried,
“The few locks that are left you are grey:
You are hale, father William, a hearty old man:
Now tell me the reason, I pray.”
“In the days of my youth,” father William replied,
“I remember’d that youth would fly fast,
And abus’d not my health and my vigour at first,