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[ Aetat. 21-22 ] J O Y C E 165hero, writes of Jimmy Doyle, who hungers for a foreign sophisticationwhich he thinks he findsin some racing-car drivers. The closing words,'Daybreak, gentlemen!', bring him back to the Dublin world of I.O.U.'s,which he is obviously not equipped to leave. Yeats's story is Celtic, Joyce'sIrish. Yeats is melancholy and warm. Joyce is meticulous. Norman acceptedthis third story but asked Joyce then not to submit any more becausethere were too many letters of complaint from readers in both thecountry and the city.A few other small opportunities came his way. He sold three poems,all probably inspired by Nora Barnacle. So complicated in his thoughtand in his prose, Joyce longed to sing; a dream of his youth was to be abird, both in its song and in its flight;and his unassuming lyrics, whichhe was to disparage and to cherish, were spurts of this lost, bird-likeaspiration. Two of the poems, 'O sweetheart, hear you,' and i would inthat sweet bosom be,' were published.in the Speaker in July and September1904; the other, 'My low^frira lr^ht_attire,' was accepted by JohnEglinton for the August issue/of Dana, arul Joyce even persuaded' Eglin-•tefrirrTJayTiTm XurTTflce aUIh~e.,pther contributors), chortling as he pock-'€fed-a~gu«ieiL. 8 ? TTieif form- B^rffirr, 4he editor of a new book-magazine,The Venture, to whom Symons had spoken of Joyce, asked for a poem;Joyce sent Baillie two poems he had written earlier, 'What counsel hasthe hooded moon' and 'Thou leanest to the shell of night.' The poemswere accepted but Joyce did not succeed in getting paid before their publicationin November. 66 Gogarty wrote to an Oxford friend, G. K. A.Bell (later a bishop), about Joyce's artful dodges to subsist without formalemployment, and Bell replied that he wept for Joyce. To this Gogartyreplied, 'Joyce said when I told him you wept for him—he at that momentwas discussing with me (alas!) how to raise £3 or rather 3 guineas,"I never borrow anything but guineas now" and when I mentioned thefact that you were weeping he brightened up and said "Weil make himshed golden tears," then suddenly to me "Write the following to Bellfrom me."Dear Sir: My friend Mr Gogarty informs me that my conduct is to you asource of amusement. As I cannot long continue to amuse you withoutsupporting my corporal estate (station) I take the liberty to ask you to forwardthree guineas etc.But we got the money somehow.' 67Constantine Curran, who was now editing St. Stephen's, the UniversityCollege magazine, asked Joyce to send him something he could notmarket elsewhere, but was staggered when Joyce disingenuously submitteda new and scabrous broadside, 'The Holy Office.' Curran returnedthe 'unholy thing' with a humorous letter to Joyce'on August 8, butmollified him with a little money. 68'The Holy Office' was Joyce's firstovert, angry declaration that he would