Title: An Old Man's Thought of School
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: November 3, 1874
Whitman Archive ID: per.00133
Source: New York Daily Graphic 3 November 1874: 11. 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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[The following poem was recited personally by th author Saturday afternoon, October 31, at th inauguration of the fine new Cooper Publi School, Camden, New Jersey:]2
1. Reprinted in Two Rivulets (1876). [back]
2. The editor's note preceding the poem includes several typographical errors: "th" for "the" in two places and "publi" for "public." [back]