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Gazing on rapids mighty sea, / Struggling fiercely to be free, / But drawn downwards in its course / By gravitation's wondrous force, / O'er those perpendicular walls, / Hurled 'mong mighty rocks it falls, / Causing the earth to throb and shake / Like to the tremor of earthquake.
Thus the world's greatest wonder / Reverberates like peals of thunder, / Enshrined with mist and beauteous glow / Of varied tints of the rainbow, / Most glorious sight the human eye / Hath ever seen beneath the sky, / Along these banks none ever trod / But did feel grateful to his God, / For lavishing with bounteous hand / Glories majestic and so grand.