Niagara Falls Slough Forest / Dr.
John Bacher
Each spring a symphony brings
Music to the woods
A chorus of frogs
Not properly renowned
Most are deaf
To the sounds
That magically abound
When every spring the mating urges bring
Amphibians to vernal pools
To sing and sing and sing
On Oldfield Road the calls once were
Stronger than anywhere
In all of Niagara the chorus rose,
With records strong to share
To those who seek to record
T hrough choral calls
How many frogs
Can be found
With the ponds north of the road ripped up
The calls die out
You have to treck south into the woods
To hear the calls because of sorry louts
Who run the City of Niagara Falls
Oh may we hope for their downfall
And so keep what is left of
The Slough Forest Woods
The sacred shrine
The Holy Rood
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