Thank you for the picture of Grizzly and the cub of him.
Sincerely yours, with best regards to the pretty ever-so-much-better half of you,Ambrose Bierce.
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[4] "Dedication" poem to Ambrose Bierce.
The Olympia,
Washington, D. C.,
March 15,
1902.
My dear Sterling,
Where are you going to stop?—I mean at what stage of development? I presume you have not a "whole lot" of poems really writ, and have not been feeding them to me, the least good first, and not in the order of their production. So it must be that you are advancing at a stupendous rate. This last[5] beats any and all that went before—or I am bewitched and befuddled. I dare not trust myself to say what I think of it. In manner it is great, but the greatness of the theme!—that is beyond anything.
It is a new field, the broadest yet discovered. To paraphrase Coleridge,
You are the first that ever burst
Into that silent [unknown] sea—