Framingham,
Mass.
May 10, 1892.My dear Miss Brooks,
You are quite welcome to use my "Cleobis and Biton" if you will make these two slight changes in the text. In the opening line for "stately and" write divinely, making it read:
"Praise to the Queen of Heaven, Hera divinely fair," - and in the last line of the second page change "strode" to sprang, making it read:
"Cleobis tall and Bitou sprang with a joyful cry."
Wishing you success I am sincerely yours,
Edna Dean Proctor.[Edna Dean Proctor's book "Poems" (1890) had the text with "stately and" and "Strode," so that could have been the text that Miss Brooks was referencing when asking for permission to use the poem.]