Publications: First line: "Upon my bed at early dawn..." Published in this version in ed. Witherell, Collected Essays and Poems, 2001, p. 563. Published in different version (starting "Upon the bank at early dawn...") in ed. Bode, Collected Poems, 1943, p. 202.
Citation/Reference: William Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1974): B16c.
Content: [3 written pages]. Ink with pencil emendations.

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Extent: 1 double leaf

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English

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15520476
Archives ID: 19098
accession number: 66B1205
Other local Identifier: 4880127
Other local Identifier: 407240e0-1652-0130-e28a-58d385a7b928
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Thoreau m.b.
Archives EAD ID: 949783
Archives Components ID: 767574
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 407240e0-1652-0130-e28a-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Cock-crowing. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1841. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/407240e0-1652-0130-e28a-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1841). Cock-crowing. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/407240e0-1652-0130-e28a-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Cock-crowing. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/407240e0-1652-0130-e28a-58d385a7b928

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