Loretto Convent, Niagara Falls by Father James B. Dollard
Loretto Convent, Niagara Falls by Father James B. Dollard
Loretto Convent, c1910
I look below; Niagara’s torrent white Is eager hurrying to the dread abyss; I hear its thunder as the waters hiss Over the awful brink, to plunge from sight In seething spray! Confusion at its height Is pictured there; but even on convent walls The radiant glow of even gently falls And all is harmony and holy quiet! Like some blest soul on Heaven that ever dreams, Bending its chastened look beyond the skies, Regardless of the tumults of the world; So, crowned with peace this cloistered abbey seems, And on its peerless heights serene doth rise, While deep below the raging floods are hurled!
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