(CUSTER GEORGE ARMSTRONG) Stedman Edmund C The closing lines

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(CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) Stedman, Edmund C. The closing lines of his poem honoring Custer, in his hand. Autograph Quotation Signed, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, on a leaf carefully torn from an album; minimal wear. Np, circa 1876-1908

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The noted poet Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) published his poem Custer on 10 July 1876, just two weeks after Little Bighorn. Here Stedman writes out the closing lines over his signature: "Thou, wild young warrior, rest / By all the prairie winds caressed! / Swift was thy dying pang / Even as the war-cry rang / Thy deathless spirit mounted high / And sought Columbia's sky / There, to the northward far / Shines a new star / And from it blazes down / The light of thy renown!"