Lines on the Fall of Two Girls from Newport Mountain, August 3, 1853

DESCRIPTION: "Historic muse whose ponderous book Contains the facts of ages past.... How vast the sphere of thy command." The people of the area seek the two girls; Elmira is found before they find Lucretia's body. The writer asks God to let them reunite
AUTHOR: William S. Douglas (source: Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
EARLIEST DATE: 1887 (Mount Desert Herald, according to Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine)
KEYWORDS: death religious
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Eckstorm/Smyth-MinstrelsyOfMaine, pp. 300-302, "Lines on the Fall of Two Girls from Newport Mountain, August 3, 1853" (1 text)
NOTES [45 words]: Without wanting to minimize the suffering of the author (the father of the dead girl), this is a singularly incompetent piece -- excessively flowery, full of empty religious language, and it doesn't even really tell what happened! It was clearly never traditional. - RBW
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