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THE GREAT HISTORIC DARK DAY

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 23, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 46.

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THE GREAT HISTORIC DARK DAY.

By John Greenleaf Whittier

'TWAS on a May day of the far old year Seventeen hundred eighty that there fell Over the bloom and sweet life of the spring, Over the fresh earth and the heaven of noon, A horror of great darkness, like the night In day of which the Norland sages tell— The twilight of the gods.
Birds ceased to sing, and all the barnyard fowls Roosted; the cattle at the pasture bars Lowed, and looked homeward; bats on leathern wings Flitted abroad; the sounds of labor died; Men prayed, and women wept; all ears grew sharp To hear the doom-blast of the trumpet shatter The black sky.
—Whittier, in Abraham Davenport.