BIB_ID
105917
Accession number
MA 1617.175
Creator
Hake, George Gordon, 1847-1903
Display Date
Place not specified, 1887 December 24.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.3 x 17.7 cm
Notes
The poem includes a watercolor drawing at the top of the page with "1888" in white, resting on a sheet of ice with dated "Xmas Eve / 1887" to the left of the drawing.
Hake has titled the poem "To W.E. Henley from G. Gordon Hake."
Hake has titled the poem "To W.E. Henley from G. Gordon Hake."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Being a poem of eight lines beginning "What are these figures that meet the eye / Looking like guns from a battery?" and ending "Cutting a figure for every age ; / Winning the battle we all must wage!"
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