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MY DEAR STERLING,
I am glad my few words of commendation were not unpleasing to you. I meant them all and more. You ought to have praise, seeing that it is all you got. The "Post," like most other newspapers, "don't pay for poetry." What a damning confession! It means that the public is as insensible to poetry as a pig to -- well, to poetry. To any sane mind such a poem as yours is worth more than all the other contents of a newspaper for a year.