Threefold Homage Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 By permission of the British Library Threefold Homage Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868 fair copy 1 page This bound volume was put together by T. J. Wise to house DGR's fair copy manuscript. British Museum Library, Ashley Collection Ashley 3849 ruled white laid paper 22.3 x 17.6 cm leaf torn from one of DGR's typical notebooks Commentary
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This is a fair copy manuscript of a draft in the Duke University Library.

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Bookplate with standing female angel blowing trumpet and seated female angel. Between the two figures is a flowing banner on which is inscribed the owner's name. Below the figures and the ower's name is an inscribed poem.

THOMAS JAMES WISE HIS BOOK

BOOKS BRING ME FRIENDS WHERE'ER ON EARTH I BE. SOLACE OF SOLITUDE& BONDS OF SOCIETY! Threefold Homage Was I most born to paint your sovereign face, Or most to sing it, or most to love it, dear? Full sweet the hope that unborn eye and ear Through me may guess the secret of your grace. Yet ah! 'neath every picture might I trace And note beside each song,— “Let none think here To breathe indeed this beauty's atmosphere, To apprehend this body and soul's embrace!” Faint shadow of you at best I weave; except That innermost image all unseen, which still Proves me at heart your beauty's crowned adept Yet was this nought, our hope's high day to fill,— That o'er us, while we kissed, with answering thrill, Two Muses held Love's hands, and smiled, and wept? blank page