THE LETTERS THAT COUNT.
["Meanwhile one sighs for the letters which do not exist."—C.K.S., in "The Sphere.">[
I never have felt any hunger,
Apart from my shortage of gold,
For the spoils of the autograph-monger,
The screeds of the sages of old;
By envy unvexed and unsmitten
I study the connoisseur's list,
But I sigh for the letters unwritten,