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The sea glows red with sunset : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
104173
Accession number
MA 1617.601
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1876 February 10.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 16.7 x 21.0 cm
Notes
The verso contains notes of "Tests of Trinidad Ste. Croix Section...1875".
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Two 4-line stanzas plus one canceled line beginning "The sea glows red with sunset / And throbs exultingly" and ending "Would know at last how good is life / Unthwarted, only ever free."