Note 54 — POEMS OF PHILIP FRENEAU
Reading edition
This was published in the National Gazette, July 14, 1792, introduced as follows:
"Odes on Various Subjects.
"HE who does not read in the book of the Odes, is like a man standing with his face flat against a wall: he can neither move forward, nor stir an inch backward.—
Hau Kiou Choaan."
This was Ode I of the series. It was republished only in the edition of 1795, the text of which I have followed.