Rainbow Tower Rainbow Tower The Rainbow Tower is a tower located at the Rainbow Plaza Canada–US border station of the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Construction on the tower was completed in 1947. The tower, part of the Canadian plaza of the bridge, was designed by Canadian architect William Lyon Somerville. The Rainbow Tower houses a carillon—a musical instrument consisting of a baton keyboard that controls a series of bells. The Rainbow Carillon is sounded three times a day, 365 days a year. It features 55 bells with a total weight of over 43 tons. The instrument is controlled via
Two on a Tower Two on a Tower Two on a Tower (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in a parallel version of late Victorian Dorset. Hardy placed an epigraph at the beginning of this book. The epigraph is from a Richard Crashaw poem, "Love's Horoscope". It reads: "Ah, my heart her eyes and she<br> Have taught thee new astrology.<br> Howe'er Love's native hours were set,<br> Whatever starry synod met,<br> 'Tis in the mercy of