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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
Item Date: 1926
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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.
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