John Orchard sent this poem to DGR in January 1850, and
the latter seems to have been involved with its revision, which was
apparently a substantial process (see Journal of the P. R. B.
Whit Sunday (or Pentecost) is the seventh sunday after Easter. It celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles.
Orchard also contributed his important (but unfinished) “Dialogue on Art”
Composed apparently in early January 1850
Published in The Germ