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the form + dress, the poetic "school" + [?], sh'd
be thus essentially + distinctly modern, sh'd be ^so for
me, in my eightieth year + last month, must, I
am sure, be pardonable. There are those who w'd call
it pitiable. If I cannot, by any effort, understand
very much of what is given by the language to the world,
it is doubtless my defect of capacity. I belong, +
must continue, in another intellectual generation, +
must there do the best I can.

A disturbing tiff with the conductor