Thanksgiving night thoughts: Suggested by a recent poem

At head of text: Too good for any but lawyers, or very honest men to read. Poem in four eight-line stanzas spoken by Mr. Arnold, interspersed with passages in prose and verse spoken by others. Author's name and publication date from contemporary ms. inscription on Brown University copy. The "recent poem" referred to is probably Mr. Arnold said by Rathbone Gardner published in 1884.