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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf poems, etc. Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, ca. 1844-1875

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Open book Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf poems and commonplace book, ca. 1844-1875

Open book Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf poems, etc. Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, ca. 1844-1875

Title Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf poems, etc. Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, ca. 1844-1875

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date ca. 1844-1875

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription And she learned the quiet corner
With the brown & braided hair,
For her [[?]] flowed down in ringlets,
And was looped with flowers fair;
And she did most fancy sober robes,
[[?]] her's with gems [[?]] rare.

So no one sought the stranger,
With the sweet head bowed so low,
With the fair & placid forehead,
And the hands as white as snow;
But she learned to be neglected,
As the nest passed to and fro.

But the evening now's coming
When my soul shuts up it's halls,
And the silvery [[?]]ies of music
To the evening worship calls
All the thousand flitting dwellers
That have been within its walls.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 5 Folder 127

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1948px × 2915px 32.53 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_127_001_040.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FHI4

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