Contemplation., 19th century -
- Containers:
- Bound Bound
- Scope and content:
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- "Principally written during a tour in North America"
- Canto I - 40 stanzas; Canto II - 48 stanzas; Canto III (number only)
- Begins: The circling year again with steady course/Renews its infant days...and ends: Farewell. This book is now indeed my last,/And these bright scenes and hours will be forever past
- Poem commemorates the beauty and storms of nature in the New World (I-31), America (I-3, II-1), Hudson River (II-8), Trenton River (II-12), Lake Erie (II-24, 28), Niagara (II-29, 37), the name of Washington (II-1,2), and states: But Man is not my theme; again I turn/To thee sweet Nature... (II-3)
- Blank leaves: 37
- Watermark: J Green & Son 1825
- Acquisition information:
- Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.
- Physical description:
- Autograph document 46 leaves 18.2 cm.
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