“The Earthquakes”
Date
3-9-1812
Newspaper
The Times
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
409
Abstract
Poem about the earthquake, from the Gleaner(newspaper)
Transcript
THE EARTHQUAKE. STILL was the hour-The Moon drove high, Her cloudless course along the sky; The winds were hush'd-no zephpr's sigh Breath'd o'er the deep tranquillity. What awful stillness reigns around; Nature seems sunk in sleep profound; What sudden trembling moves the ground! What shakes the world thus fearfully? Earth's bosom seems with pain to swell- What wand'ring spirit strikes that bell*? Nature, is this thy funeral knell? My soul, is this eternity? Behold! the mighty mountains nod! As when on Sinad's summit trod The footsteps of the eternal GOD, When he unveil'd his majesty! How dread the thunder's awful roll, That shakes the earth from pole to pole! What power can thus convulse the whole! Can it be less than Deity? Tempests and fires; whirlwinds and storms; Comets and earthquakes-dire alarms, Distinctly cry, FLY NOT TO ARMS! THE WARNING HEED COLUMBIANS. *At Charleston, S.C. the bells in the Churches rang. The Gleaner.
Recommended Citation
"“The Earthquakes”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 402.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/402
