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MOORE, George Augustus (1852-1933). Irish novelist, poet and art critic.
Autograph poem in French, Pour un tableau de Leighton, eight lines in two stanzas on 1 page 8vo, Dublin, November 1902. Dedicated at the foot to Cissy (Cecilia) Loftus (1876-1943, Scottish actress).
'De quoi révent elles? de fleurs
D'ombres d'étoiles ou de pleurs?
De quoi revent ces douces femmes
De leurs amours ou de leurs ames?...'
The appears to be an old erase beneath the signature, which very slightly affect it.
Provenance: deaccessioned manuscript from Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
[No: 24176]

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