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DEAR HERBERT, -- "Be partner of my dreams as of my fishing," says the old fisherman to his mate, in that delicious idyll of Theocritus -- do read it again. It is one of the little masterpieces that hang for ever in one of the inner secret rooms of the great halls of poetry. The two old men lie awake in their wattled cabin, listening to the soft beating of the sea, and beguiling the dark hour before the dawn, when they must fare forth, in simple talk about their dreams. It is a genre picture, full of simple detail, but with a vein of high poetry about it; all remote from history and civic life, in that eternal region of perfect and quiet art, into which, thank God, one can always turn to rest awhile.
But to-day I don't want to talk of fishermen, or Theocritus, or even art; I want you to share one of my dreams.