A Few lines composed on the Dark Day, May 19, 1780.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43798.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1780
Place of publication: [Boston?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders -- Poetry.; Disasters -- Religious aspects -- Poetry.; Forest fires -- New England.; Repentance -- Poetry.
Other titles: Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might.
Notes: Verse in twenty-two 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, no. 57.

Imprint dates suggested by content and typography.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 22.0 x 12.6 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.

Bristol B5085.

Shipton & Mooney 43798.

Wegelin, O.  Amer. poetry, 586.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43798)