Note 134 — POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU (continued 2)
Reading edition
From the edition of 1809, the text of which I have followed in all but the title which is "To a Democratic Editor." This poem first appeared in the Time-Piece, October 23, 1797, with the following introduction: "'He that first put a real mark upon the forehead of the Beast was the inventor of Printing. This mark was impressed deeply, and becomes deeper from day to day.'—Erasmus."