Otto Klotz Diary - August 13, 1887 (Vol 10)
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Title
Otto Klotz Diary - August 13, 1887 (Vol 10)
Creator
Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923.
Source
Part of R6645-0-4-E (LAC)
Publisher
Stakeholders Project
Date
1887-08-13
Contributor
University of Ottawa Library
Faculty of Arts
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Format
Diary entry
Type
Text
Identifier
Klotz_Vol10_1887_08_13
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Transcription
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The air is beautifully clear since the rain and decidedly cooler. Attended the examination. There are four examiners, a secretary and only one candidate, apparently hard on the candidate, but as one of the examiners [fautiously] reworked, “our sympathies are read so diffused now, and his chance therefore betters.
One of the most appalling railroad disasters on record occurred the other day near Chatsworth Illinois, whereby over a hundred [exemsionists] lost their lives and many more were wounded.
Ode to Kakabeka
See July 29
- In memory of July 29 1889 –
Hear Kakabeka roar and seethe
While stuck with awe we faintly breathe
Our eyes they stare, primed to the view
The falling waters each scene renew
When [went then] carved in rock so deep
What cleft these rocks – so high, so steep
How many aeons have passed thy creek
Since first was bared thy rocky breast?
“Methinks, I am still very young
But know not whence my life hath sprung
Yet this I know with certainty
Nature doth nourish thee and me.”
Sombre and dark the waters glide
Between the banks from side to side
Till at the awful brick they come
Those sparkle in the light of the sun.
Myriads of pearls are gaily dancing
Bounding from ledge to ledge advancing
Needlessly plunging into the abyss.
Youth mocking nature resembling n this.
Silvery and golden in their hue
Enchanting, bewitching to the view.
From the giant cauldron dimly seen
Where never human foot has been
Arise the mists and everymore
Observe thy face on [washam] shone
Again they life on Kawimichiquin
Who hears it towards Niagara
And there in one majestic fall
Exceeding thine, eclipses all.
But where there built to him a shrine
Where mighty Jupiter would reign
One to Apollo would then be thine
Where youth and vigor e’er light regain
Now Kakabeka, farewell, farewell
Thy music I’ll hear no more
But time shall not frame my mind expell
Those scenes you put in stone.
The air is beautifully clear since the rain and decidedly cooler. Attended the examination. There are four examiners, a secretary and only one candidate, apparently hard on the candidate, but as one of the examiners [fautiously] reworked, “our sympathies are read so diffused now, and his chance therefore betters.
One of the most appalling railroad disasters on record occurred the other day near Chatsworth Illinois, whereby over a hundred [exemsionists] lost their lives and many more were wounded.
Ode to Kakabeka
See July 29
- In memory of July 29 1889 –
Hear Kakabeka roar and seethe
While stuck with awe we faintly breathe
Our eyes they stare, primed to the view
The falling waters each scene renew
When [went then] carved in rock so deep
What cleft these rocks – so high, so steep
How many aeons have passed thy creek
Since first was bared thy rocky breast?
“Methinks, I am still very young
But know not whence my life hath sprung
Yet this I know with certainty
Nature doth nourish thee and me.”
Sombre and dark the waters glide
Between the banks from side to side
Till at the awful brick they come
Those sparkle in the light of the sun.
Myriads of pearls are gaily dancing
Bounding from ledge to ledge advancing
Needlessly plunging into the abyss.
Youth mocking nature resembling n this.
Silvery and golden in their hue
Enchanting, bewitching to the view.
From the giant cauldron dimly seen
Where never human foot has been
Arise the mists and everymore
Observe thy face on [washam] shone
Again they life on Kawimichiquin
Who hears it towards Niagara
And there in one majestic fall
Exceeding thine, eclipses all.
But where there built to him a shrine
Where mighty Jupiter would reign
One to Apollo would then be thine
Where youth and vigor e’er light regain
Now Kakabeka, farewell, farewell
Thy music I’ll hear no more
But time shall not frame my mind expell
Those scenes you put in stone.
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Klotz, Otto, 1852-1923., “Otto Klotz Diary - August 13, 1887 (Vol 10),” stakeholders, accessed September 19, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/stakeholders/items/show/455.