The Vault at Pfaff's

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

At Vespers in the Cathedral

Farmenter, Frederick A. "At Vespers in the Cathedral." New York Saturday Press, April 30, 1859, 1.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker sits in the cathedral and watches mysterious smoke rise from the flame on the altar. He dimly conceives of what awaits him in the afterlife and thinks of waiting for that day.