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

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

Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1780 and 1810]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26 x 18 cm
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Curiosities and wonders--Poetry. Disasters--Religious aspects --Poetry. Forest fires--New England. Repentance--Poetry.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43798. ^A478749
General note	Verse in twenty-two stanzas; first line: Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might.
General note	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.
General note	Imprint dates suggested by content and typography.
General note	Text in two columns; printed area measures 22.0 x 12.6 cm.
References	Bristol B5085
References	Shipton & Mooney 43798
References	Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 586
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43798).
Genre/form	Broadsides.
Genre/form	Poems 1780.

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