[Rarebooks] F/S Scum O' The Earth with manuscript poem

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration the following, net to all and postpaid @$50

From
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, Vt. 05363
mail at austinsbooks.com
802 464-8438

Schauffler, Robert Haven. Scum O' The Earth And Other Poems. Boston: 
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1912. First Edition. Octavo; pp; 57, (v), 
colophon, ad leaf; frontispiece of immigrants in a line with a cityscape 
background; quarter beige linen and brown paper covered boards, title 
labels to spine and upper board; Very good; On the front free fly leaf 
the author has penned a poem, titled "Earth's Easter MCMXVI" and signed 
it below. That poem is as follows and has been published.

EARTH has gone up from its Gethsemane,
   And now on Golgotha is crucified;
   The spear is twisted in the tortured side;
The thorny crown still works its cruelty.
Hark! while the victim suffers on the tree,
   There sound through starry spaces, far and wide,
   Such words as in the last despair are cried:
"My God! my God! Thou hast forsaken me!"

But when earth's members from the cross are drawn,
And all we love into the grave is gone,
   This hope shall be a spark within the gloom:
That, in the glow of some stupendous dawn,
   We may go forth to find, where lilies bloom,
   Two angels bright before an empty tomb.
-- 
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