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WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794 - 1878) American poet, author of "Thanatopsis". Superb A.Q.S. 1p. 4to., New York, Jan. 1877. His poem "The Dead Patriarch", penned in full on a lined sheet, in part: "...Old Tree! Thy branches, fifty years ago, Thickset with leaf and spray...made a faint twilight on the ground below. And never ending murmurs overhead. But now, unheard the winds go wandering by, From the dead stem the boughs have dropped away, And on its summit, perched in middle sky, The clear eyed hawk sits watching for his prey. Henceforth, the softening rain and rending blast, Summer's fierce heat and winter's splintering col Shall slowly waste thee, till then lie at last, On the damp earth, a heap of yellow mould...". Boldly signed at conclusion. "The Dead Patriarch" was not published during Bryant's lifetime and appeared for the first time in Poetical Works by D. Appleton & Co., 1883. Mounted, weakened folds and marginal breaks, still good and ideal for restoration.