BENSON (Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of the 'Mapp & Lucia' novels)

Autograph Quotation Signed to from Hamlet "The bird of dawning singeth all night long", 1 side oblong 8vo., no place, Christmas

From Hamlet, Act I, Scene I Marcellus to Horatio and Bernardo, after seeing the Ghost. This verse has been set to music as a Christmas song.

"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time."

Item Date:  1926

Stock No:  39543      £150

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