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Ballade. Setting forth the likeness of love to the wind : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
103905
Accession number
MA 1617.585
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) ; 28.4 x 22.5 cm
Notes
The page is titled "Ballade / Setting Forth the Likeness / of Love to the Wind" and follows with "Love blows as the wind blows / Love blows into my heart. / Song of the Nile Boatman." and beneath those lines a very rough draft of a poem beginning "Among the tags & cues / of battered verse & prose / The prim world's need renews, / Love blows as the wind blows."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.