AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)

10 April 1877. Manuscript. Minor wrinkling and creases from folding. Near Fine with an attractive engraved portrait of the poet. The second stanza of Bryant's poem "The Battle-Field" in the poet's hand, SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated by him at the conclusion on a 5" x 8" sheet of paper. Bryant, who was a founder of the Republican Party and fervent supporter of Abraham Lincoln, commemorates the Civil War dead:

Ah, never shall the land forget
How gushed the life blood of her brave
Gushed warm with hope and courage yet
Upon the soil they fought to save.