Description

Published by G.P. Putman’s Sons.New York, 1897. Hardcover, green cloth lettered in gold on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. 278 pages. Signed presentation copy by author, dated March 1901 on front free end-paper. Additional private gift inscription directly below dated Dec. 1925. First edition. A collection of religious poetry and verse. In addition to the eponymously named title poem there are 71 verses, including To the Jews; To Livingstone’s Memory; Walt Whitman; From Brooklyn Bridge, To a Poet who Denies a Future Life; and Henry Ward Beecher: A Rhapsody. A clean, square, fresh and internally unmarked copy. But for mild scuff to spine a fine copy. Near fine.