Note 89 — POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU (continued 2)
Reading edition
Freneau seems deliberately to have manufactured this poem for his edition of 1795 from fragments of his discarded poems, the House of Night and the Jamaica Funeral. It is made up as follows: Jamaica Funeral, stanzas 44-46; House of Night 73, 132-134, 139; Jamaica Funeral 47; House of Night 76, 77; an original stanza; House of Night 48, 34, 116, 30, 43; Jamaica Funeral 34, 35, 40, 48-51. Many of these stanzas are much changed. Text from the 1809 edition.