HOLMES, Oliver Wendell — AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
Beverly Farms, MA. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody":Sweet are the lips of all who singWhen nature's music heather unsoughtBut never yet could voice or stringSo truly shape our tenderest thoughtAs when by life's decaying fireOur fingers sweep the stringless lyre!Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Beverly Farms, Mass./Aug. 24th 1878." The poem is identified in ink in a smaller hand at the bottom left corner.. A few small stains and mounting remnants on verso. Near Fine