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The wedding of the rose and the lotus : a poem written on the near-completion of the Panama Canal, showing how the genius of the west, here typified by the rose, and the genius of the east, here typified by the lotus, are to be merged and mingled in one / Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, rhymer and designer.

Accession number
PML 186062
Creator
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931.
Published
Springfield, Ill. : [publisher not identified], 1912.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Title from first panel.
Text printed on outside of a single sheet folded twice to form three panels, the reverse side being blank, with Lindsay's poem on the third panel, signed and dated at end: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 1912.
Off-white paper printed and illustrated in black with reproductions of drawings and hand written text by the author.
Library's copy housed in black cloth slipcase with PML 186059-61.
Description
1 folded sheet ([3] panels) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Unbound folded sheet.
Classification
Department