The great magazine gives me such--a--background; gives me such weight." "Gives YOU such weight, gives you such background.

Is it YOURSELF you think of?
You helper of the helpless.

Is that your sincerity?
You must sink yourself; must forget yourself and your own desire of fame, of admitted success.

It is your POEM, your MESSAGE, that must prevail,--not YOU, who wrote it.

You preach a doctrine of abnegation, of self-obliteration, and you sign your name to your words as high on the tablets as you can reach, so that all the world may see, not the poem, but the poet.