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LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. Autograph Quotation Signed, and dated, five lines from his poem "Excelsior": "The shades of night were falling fast / As through an Alpine village passed / A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, / A banner with the strange device / Excelsior!" Approximately 4 1/2x6 3/4 inches; stained at edges on verso from prior mounting, mounted to bottom is a strip of paper on which is written in HL's hand, "With W. Longfellow's compliments." Np, July 1855
