BIB_ID
104291
Accession number
MA 1617.609
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, undated.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.1 x 15.2 cm
Notes
The verso contains an undated autograph note signed with initials forwarding the MS. to an unnamed person reading "Here you are, d---n your eyes! and if you want it again, you'll have to [illegible]. How are you? I am feeling very antient & stale. The world is too much with us."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
An untitled poem of six 4-line stanzas beginning "With sails let fall, & sheeted home, & clear of the ground were we / We passed the bank, stood round the light, & sailed away to sea" and ending "And when the liquor it is out, & the locker it is low, / Then to sea again in the [illegible] track 'twill be time."
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