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Rh Perhaps in the future all journalists may be trained to this degree of cunning, and then, perhaps before the end of time, they may sicken even the average man with smartness in verse.

Strangest of all, this lover of beauty and this captive of momentary effect have been once at least fused consciously and inextricably in a single poem, a successful poem.

THE BUGLER

Second thoughts are best, and this seems made entirely of first thoughts; images, attitude, everything; and yet it is inevitably shaped to a whole that is itself throughout. The mad passion for beauty can do so much even with 92