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And again:

To see you unfits for stabler meetings. I dare not risk an intemperate moment before a banquet of bran.

The decision to publish "The Single Hound," the poem of their lifetime, was determined by a faded little note of her early twenties:

She never told her family of her writing, and this is the only mention of any secret ambition to have her work known even on a day "a long way off." The first poem dated, that she sent to Sister Sue, was in 1848, and probably the last word she ever wrote was her reply to a message from her—