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Poem
July 30, 1872
Gold Hill Daily News
Gold Hill, Storey County, Nevada
What is this article about?
A German poet's touching narrative poem describes a heroine learning of her lover's death by alligator on Lake Erie's shore, traveling from near Lake Superior in Florida's Everglades to capture the beast, extract his bones, and bury him grandly in Louisville's Greenwood Cemetery.
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An Affecting Poem.—A German poet has recently written a touching poem, in which the hero is represented as devoured by an alligator, under a palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie, in America. The heroine hears of the terrible fate of her lover down in the everglades of Florida, near the banks of Lake Superior, where she is living, and rushed down South to Lake Erie and lies in wait for that crocodile, captures him, cuts him open, extracts the bones of her dead lover, purchases a rich coffin, and has him interred in magnificent style in Greenwood Cemetery, Louisville. The poem is truly affecting.
What sub-type of article is it?
Ballad
What themes does it cover?
Love Courtship
Death Mourning
What keywords are associated?
German Poet
Alligator
Lake Erie
Everglades
Florida
Lake Superior
Greenwood Cemetery
Louisville
Lover Burial
What entities or persons were involved?
A German Poet
Poem Details
Title
An Affecting Poem.
Author
A German Poet
Subject
Hero Devoured By Alligator And Heroine's Burial Quest