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7? Outglow the rainbow good Love in Italy lively? witty Life at its full is holiest Thy heart a thronged confessional A
fount of sympathy, a store Of jewels at an open door Very good the end of the poem is capital. Grass half-robin high , in
a spring prelude is I think very good vivid so is Oriole flute rich as his coat Love in the Calendar has wit a jolly lilt,
When chinks in Aprils windy dome Let through a day of June And every sound s a tune are fine sturdy poetic lines A sigh from
now it will be night in September Eve good. So is the line When tired equinoctials sleep, in October Here is the watershed
of all the year 8 The gaunt? wrinkled orchard shivers neath the blast like Lear upon the English heath And mossy boughs
blow wild that undistressed Another spring shall hide the cheerful nest These lines in November seem to me wonderfully vivid
telling The Washington Hymn is grand but too short The poet that Lights up the farthest dark the final haze very fine. In
Browning at Asolo Yesterday he was part of it all Sat here, discerning cloud from snow In the flush of the Alpine afterglow
is vivid telling as only the poet can make it. O muffled bell If speech Divided Honors is very clever so is A tracer for J.B.
These are the lines that at first sight caught my eye. It seems wonderful 9 that such a working, fighting man of affairs
as you are should be so much a poet. I m proud of you go ahead plan up more poets gold to brace cheer inspire your many already
deeply indebted friends. I send herewith a few clippings will send more soon Also the report of the Yosemite Commissioners
containing the governors letter to the chairman of the Senate Committee on public lands The governor is as you will see violently
opposed to recession. We have found out (directors of the Sierra Club) that Caminetti s bill is mainly in the interest of
lumberman those who own timber claims for sale to lumbermen Timber claims within the boundaries of the park are very nearly
worthless to the owners as they can make no use of them