[Rarebooks] FS: Handwritten SIGNED MANUSCRIPT Poem by William Cullen Bryant
Charles Agvent
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Fri Sep 24 14:18:03 EDT 2021
BRYANT, William Cullen. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Song for
New Year's Eve" n.p., 31 December 1856. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x
8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the
conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and
third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second
stanza here containing corrections and added lines. The poem's first and
last stanzas:
Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay
Stay till the good old year,
So long companion of our way,
Shakes hands, and leaves us here.
Oh stay, oh stay,
One little hour, and then away.
Even while we sing, he smiles his last,
And leaves our sphere behind.
The kind old year is with the past;
Oh be the new as kind!
Oh stay, oh stay,
One parting strain, and then away.
The word "good" as per the published version is struck through here with
the word "kind" added above it. Near Fine. (#020649) $1,500
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