Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 1,000
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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph Manuscript dated and Signed, "Henry W. Longfellow," a four-line stanza from his poem "Psalm of Life." 1 page, oblong 12mo; marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of prior mounting at upper and right edges verso, vertical folds. (MRS) Np, 3 July 1851

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"Art is long, and Time is fleeting, / And our hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave."
The early poem from which this stanza was drawn was first published in Knickerbocker magazine in October of 1838.