BURROUGHS JOHN Autograph Manuscript Signed working draft of

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BURROUGHS, JOHN. Autograph Manuscript Signed, working draft of his poem, "The Return," with two holograph corrections and an Autograph Note Signed, "JB," likely to a publisher, in pencil, at lower edge of last page: "If not available please return." The poem, differing significantly in the second stanza from the same in the last published version. 2 pages, 8vo, written on two sheets, moderate scattered soiling, large "23" written vertically across text on first page in crayon in unknown hand, blue crayon line striking out ANS. West Point, circa 1906

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"He sought the old scenes with eager feet / The scenes he had known as a boy; . . .
"He roamed the fields, he walked by the streams / He threaded the paths & lanes; / On the hills he sought his youthful dreams, / In the woods to forget his pains. . . .
"One may go back to the place of his birth, / He cannot go back to his youth."
"The Return" was published with the text of the present version in the December 27, 1906, issue of the Waterloo Press newspaper.