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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Autograph Manuscript dated and
Signed, “Henry W. Longfellow,” a four-line stanza from his poem “Psalm of Life.” 1 page,
oblong 12mo; marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of prior mounting at
upper and right edges verso, vertical folds. (MRS)
Np, 3 July 1851
[1,000/2,000]
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Art is long, and Time is fleeting, / And our hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muf-
fled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave.”
The early poem from which this stanza was drawn was first published in
Knickerbocker
magazine in October of 1838.
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