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242 morning to take short naps with her head upon the typewriter while the literally tireless journalist filled and lighted his pipe.' Meanwhile he was growing popular as a lecturer and reader of his own poems, and proving himself in those capacities a masterly elocutionist and an excellent man of business. He showed in his life, as so many of our truest poets have shown, that sane living and efficiency in the ordinary affairs of the world are not incompatible with the finest poetical sensibility. You have something of the fineness and the robust healthfulness of his philosophy in his scathing lines 'To Certain Poets':