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This Autographed 4.75x7.5 Handwritten Poem Excerpt Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dated June 19, 1884 has been Personally Signed by John G. Whittier. This item is 100% Authentic, it comes slabbed and authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website. An autograph quotation signed by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), the Quaker poet and abolitionist, as "John G. Whittier" at lower right. Written at a place possibly called the "Tremont Club" (?) on June 19, 1884. Whittier praised his friend and fellow writer Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) in Section XIV of his poem "The Last Walk in Autumn," an excerpt from his poetry collection "Poems of Nature," published in 1886.In full, with unchanged spelling and punctuation:"EmersonHe who might Plato’s banquet graceHave I not seen before me sit,And watched his Puritanic face,With more than Eastern wisdom lit.Shrewd mystic, who, upon the backOf his Poor Richard’s Almanac,Writing the Sufi’s song, the Gentoo’s dream,Links Menu’s age of thought to Fulton’s age of steam!John G. WhittierTremont Club (?)6th Mo. 19 1884 -."
