Title: As the Greek's Signal Flame
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: December 15, 1887
Whitman Archive ID: per.00080
Source: New York Herald 15 December 1887: 3. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, April Lambert, and Susan Belasco
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[For Whittier's Eightieth Birthday, December 17, 1887.]
1. Reprinted in the Boston Daily Advertiser (17 December 1887); Munyon's Illustrated World (January 1888); and then in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]
2. The "Sands at Seventy" printing of the poem omits the second line. [back]