BIB_ID
104228
Accession number
MA 1617.614
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1871 November 12.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.0 x 19.0 cm
Notes
On the verso of a wrapper addressed to Henley, "5, Private Ward / Royal Infirmary / Edinburgh / N.B." with two Edinburgh postmarks dated 14 and 15 July 1875.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
A poem of 14 lines, beginning "His features aiming at a haughty scowl / So steeped in rum, to move would be to fall" and ending "With years & drink decrepit, in man's wise / A devil's self might turn aside, and weep?"
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