O. C. Auringer

Obadiah Cyrus Auringer (born 1849) was an American clergyman and poet, born at Glens Falls, New York. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1871 to 1875, farmed until 1889 and in 1890 was ordained a Presbyterian minister, becoming pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York.

His volumes of poems include Scythe and Sword (1887) and The Heart of the Golden Rose (1891). Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.