Verse Fragment from the Continent (draft manuscript)Dante Gabriel Rossetti1Published with the permission of Iziko Museums of Cape Town[Untitled]Dante Gabriel Rossetti1849?holograph draftDGR1 pageLibrary of the South African National Gallerypale blue unlined7 x 3 1/2 in
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This unpublished manuscript is among a cache of materials originally in the possession of WMR and after that of John Robert Wahl. They finally passed into the library of the South African National Gallery.
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This Squat cut[?] hedge continues to the Common with/along the RoadOn to the common see where they goadThe Asses towards ushere as their heads startfirst up the hill against the sky apartfrom each other, hey! [?] come up this bankwe can see over the hill to the last/further rankof those straight young poplars growing propped besidethe ways they would have done for me I triedfor some such trees in my last picture which keptme so indoors like yesterday weve leftall that now though and coming just from [Home?]our walk along the day with p