Correspondence with William Hayes Ward - February 18 - 2

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that your own literary taste is compromised
by it I would rather the three verses of
the "Martyrs" should be published if any.
I shall not be annoyed if you decide not
to publish at all. I should have said printed.
I do not think she meant to speak of the
needle as at the pole - but it's apparent
struggle to its allegiance in any air - polar
air appealing to her imagination as making
a colder figure for her passionless poem. You