It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my ''poems'' are competing.
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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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It's better known as 'The Great Halftime Flush. It's equal to all the water which tumbles over Niagara Falls in seven minutes. The Halftime Flush -- that's very serious business. I mean, you've got 90 million Americans flushing toilets. You could have a tragic clogging problem in America.
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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'What made the deepest impression upon you?' inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, 'when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?' ---- 'The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,' Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, 'was where in the world did all that water come from?'
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