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Robert Frost. Original fair copy manuscript signed of his poem "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things."...
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Robert Frost. Original fair copy manuscript signed of his poem "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things." No place, no date.One page, 8vo (9 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 240 x 175 mm). Housed in a green cloth portfolio.
COMPLETE 24-LINE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM OF HIS POEM "THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS."
The complete poem reads: "The house had gone to bring again / To the midnight sky a sunset glow. / Now the chimney was all of the house that stood / Like a pistil after the petals go. / The barn opposed across the way / That would have joined the house in flame / Had it been the will of the wind ["still stood" crossed out] was left / To bear forsaken the place's name. / No more it opened with all one end / For teams that came by the stony road / To drum on the floor with with scurrying hoofs / And brush the mow with the summer load. / The birds that came [crossed out] to it through the air / At broken windows flew out and in, / Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh / From too much dwelling on what has been. / Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf, / And the aged elm, through touched with fire; And the dry pump flung up and awkward arm; / And the fence post carried a strand of wire. / For them there was really nothing sad. / But though they rejoiced in nest they kept, / One had to be versed in country things / Not to believe the Poebes [sic] wept. / Robert Frost."
"The Need of Being Versed in Country Things" was first published in New Hampshire (1923).
Condition: Horizontal crease along old fold, two hole punches at top; lightly toned; very faint ink transfer across the 15th and 16th lines of verse.
References: See Crane A6.
Provenance: Purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, in 1970. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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