Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1748.06.20

NYGWPB.748.017
20 Jun 1748:12 (283)
ON THE LATE DREADFUL FIRE.
How dreadful! in the calm, the midnight hour,
When peaceful sleep exerts his soothing pow'r,
To start from slumber, with th' affrighting sound 
Of bursting flames, which rage our dwellings round!
. . . [10 more lines] [about a recent fire in Corn Hill in
London]