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LANIER (SIDNEY). American Poet. A.MS.
S. Autograph Manunript Poem titled: "To
J.D.H.,Killed at Surrey,C.H.October 1866."
2 pages,8vo. 1866. Written in ink. domprises 4
stanzas,4 lines each. Wlth O¥Oth prgéfiéfiégn
cover in hf.lev.brown mor.Sllp case.‘

AN EXTREMELY EARLY AND DESIRABLE MANU-
SCRIPT POEM WRITTEN BEFORE HIS FIRST WORK
"TIGER-LILIES. A NOVEL" WAS PUBLISHED.

.Lanier graduated Oglethorpe College with
honors in 1860. He then served in the Con—
federate Army during the Civil War,andwas
a prisoner for five monehts. This poem was
written directly after the war,apparently
While clerk in Montgomery,Alabama.

The scarcity of banier manuscript mater—
ial is Well known. This is an unusually early
and fine specimen. We belive most of the M88.
are in the possession of the poet's son,Mr.H.W.
Lanier. Written in iambic tetrameter,the poem
commences:

"Dead Friend forgive a wild lament
Insanely following thy flight

I would not cumber thine ascent
Nor drag.thee bask into the night.

"But the great sea-Winds sigh with me

The fairafaced Stars seem wrinkled,old,
And I Would that I might lie with thee
There in the grave so cold,so cold!..."