No gaping tourists loitered, eyeing with their glasses, or sketching on cards the hoary locks of the ancient river-god.

All tended to harmonize with the natural grandeur of the scene.

I gazed long.

I saw how here mutability and unchangeableness were united.

I surveyed the conspiring waters rushing against the rocky ledge to overthrow it at one mad plunge, till, like toppling ambition, o'er-leaping themselves, they fall on t' other side, expanding into foam ere they reach the deep channel where they creep submissively away.
Then arose in my breast a genuine admiration, and a humble adoration of the Being who was the architect of this and of all.