Where's the Britain we called divine : autograph manuscript.

Record ID: 
104289
Accession number: 
MA 1617.608
Author: 
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description: 
1 item (1 page) ; 28.5 x 22.2 cm
Summary: 

An untitled poem of twenty-seven lines comprised of 3 8-line stanzas and a concluding 3-line stanza with the first two of the lines of the second stanza crossed through and beginning "Where's the Britain we called divine / the opulent isle of long ago?" and ending "The wheat falls to a dull machine / Better it was in the Long Ago." Henley has written three opening lines which he has crossed through.

Provenance: 
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.