CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph manuscript signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), n.p. [India], n.d. [c.1896-8], a poem, 'Our modern watchwords', opening 'The shadow falls along the shore', the text in pencil, signed in ink, on 2 pages, 4to, bifolium; enclosed in a cover-sheet with blind-stamped heading of '4th Hussars, India', title in autograph on p.1, final verso annotated in another hand with a list of names.

CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). Autograph manuscript signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), n.p. [India], n.d. [c.1896-8], a poem, 'Our modern watchwords', opening 'The shadow falls along the shore', the text in pencil, signed in ink, on 2 pages, 4to, bifolium; enclosed in a cover-sheet with blind-stamped heading of '4th Hussars, India', title in autograph on p.1, final verso annotated in another hand with a list of names.

A patriotic outburst, beginning with an evocation of a fleet on the eve of battle, and incorporating as the 'modern watchwords' names (including 'Talienman' and 'Sokotoo') evocative of the British imperial enterprise. Churchill did not habitually compose verse, and no comparable manuscript is recorded as appearing at auction (ABPC-online).