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An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

An April Orphic [From the Cincinnati Dial, June 1860]

"An April Orphic [From the Cincinnati Dial, June 1860]." New-York Saturday Press. (1860-6-12).
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Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker in the six stanza poem relays the lesson he learned upon his discovery of a "pale, sweet flower" within the depths of a dark gorge of alders. Admiring its beauty and saddened by its distance, a message is sent to him from below: a soul "tossed" of ambition can find joy in being "Content."