O thou Mount Katskill! whom I now survey
In roseate brightness of the new-born day,
To thee my thankfulness I would convey,
        For self and crowd;
Who from the glare and hum of hot
        Financial lives,
Have sought repose upon thy wondrous crest, and
        Brought our wives-
I gaze upon thy placid brow, where storms do
        Reckless rage,
Forgetful of the storms of life, and Mister
        BEACH'S stage.

II.

I gaze upon thy beauteous vistas
        Far and wide;
I see the day-break beautifully paint thy
        Rugged side:
I see AURORA show the panorama
        Night did hide:
I see the lazy Hudson grad-u-
        Ally glide,
Reluctant to abandon thee, and seek
        The salt sea tide.
I think almost excusingly of that tough
        Two dollar ride;
And only for my wallets sake, I longer
        Would abide.

III.

Nature has kindly gifted thee with meadow,
        Lake and dell,
And for the Falls of Kauterskill I know no
        Parallel:
Humanity has crowned thee with this festive
        Gay Hotel,
Where Fame and Fashion eager wait to hear
        Thy dinner bell:
0 Mount!  0 view! thy beauties now I can no
        Longer tell,
For, after breakfast, I must say O---Katskill!
        Fare thee well!
And leave thee---in one of those abominable stages,
       "which I wish it"
           Was in H-----eaven!

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