Excerpt from John's Trip: Or a Visit to Niagara, a Serio-Comic Poem, in Four Cantos

A Visit to Niagara.

Bright dreams of what may sometimes be
But "castles in the air, " -
Though ye full often disappoint,
Ye are of life a share!
Ye lead us on to deeds, which may
By age be sore condemned,
But who, in youthful years, e'er thought
Of what might be the end!

Thus thought a youth, who long had lived
A life of happy dreams,
Whose dearest wish was that, sometime,
He'd bask in Fortune's beams,
Long had he dwelt, contented, in
His eastern country home,
Till youthful aspirations taught
His heart a wish to roam.

But here, unto his youthful mind,
A question did arise,
Where he would go, that he might see
The most to cause surprise,
And having read and heard folks say
Niagara was not slow,
Made up his mind, without delay,
To that place he would go.

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