A Few lines composed on the Dark Day, of May 19, 1780.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49752.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders--Poetry.

Disasters--Religious aspects--Poetry.

Forest fires--New England.

Repentance--Poetry.

Repentance.

Forest fires.

Disasters--Religious aspects.

Curiosities and wonders.

New England.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1780.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [1780?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might.

The darkness which extended over much of New England was presumably the result of smoke and ashes from a forest fire, trapped in the atmosphere by excessive moisture. Cf. Bumgardner, G.B. American broadsides, 1971, numbers 57.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 25.8 x 14.8 cm. With printers' ornaments separating title from text. In the present edition, the title appears in two lines, the second beginning "1780."

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 49752).

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