Attractive handwritten final stanza from the 1858 poem The Chambered Nautilus, penned on an off-white 7 x 4.25 sheet by Holmes, who signs at the conclusion, "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston March 8th 1858." The stanza, in full: "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, / As the swift seasons roll! / Leave thy low-vaulted past! / Let each new temple, nobler than the last, / Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, / Till thou at length art free, / Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!" Affixed to a slightly larger sheet. In fine condition. The Chambered Nautilus was first published in the February 1858 issue of The Atlantic Monthly in Holmes' 'Breakfast-Table' column.