Notes
1] Gerogiannis points out Hemingway's allusion to Longfellow's "My Lost Youth":
A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
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Original text: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems (Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1923): 58. Facsimile edition by Contact Publishing, 1977. PS 3515 E37A15 Robarts Library.
First publication date:
January
1923
Publication date note: Poetry 21.iv (January 1923): 193-95.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/17
Composition date:
1921
Composition date note: Chicago (Complete Poems, ed. Nicholas Gerogiannis, rev. edn. [1992]: 34)
Rhyme: abcbdb