On the Dark Day May 19th 1780.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 20953.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curiosities and wonders--Poetry.

Curiosities and wonders.

Disasters--Religious aspects--Poetry.

Disasters.

Forest fires--New England.

Forest fires.

Repentance--Poetry.

Repentance.

Disasters--Religious aspects.

New England.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Poems -- 1810.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26 x 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1810 and 1830?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first lines: 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, no. 57.

Included in Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts. Imprint dates suggested by typography.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 19.4 x 14.1 cm.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 20953).

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