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are indebted to the following firms for permission to use poems mentioned: :

Frederick Warne & Co., for poems of George Herbert and Reginald Heber; Small, Maynard & Co., for two poems by Walt Whitman, and “The Tax-Gatherer," by John B. Tabb; George Routledge & Son, for “Sir Lark and King Sun,” George Macdonald; Longmans, Green & Co., for Andrew Lang's “Scythe Song "; Lee & Shepard, for “ A Christmas Hymn,” Alfred Dommett,” and “Minstrels and Maids," William Morris; J. B. Lippincott Co., for three poems by Thomas Buchanan Read; John Lane, for “ The Forsaken Merman," Matthew Arnold, and " Song to April,” William Watson; “ The Skylark,” Frederick Tennyson; E. P. Dutton & Co., for “ O Little Town of Bethlehem,” Phillips Brooks; Dana, Estes & Co., for “ July," by Susan Hartley Swett; Little, Brown & Co., for poems of Christina G. Rossetti, and for the three

poems,

“ The Grass," " The Bee," and " Chartless ” by Emily Dickinson; D. Appleton & Co., publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for “ March,” “ Planting of the Apple Tree," “To the Fringed Gentian,” “Death of Flowers, “ To a Waterfowl,” and “The Twentysecond of December ”; Charles Scribner's Sons, for “ The Wind” and “ A Visit from the Sea,” both taken from “ A Child's Garden of Verses "; “ The Angler's Reveille," from “ The Toiling of Felix ”; “ Dear Land of All My Love,” from “ Poems of Sidney Lanier," and " The Three Kings," from “ With Trumpet and Drum,” by Eugene Field; The Churchman, for “ Tacking Ship Off Shore," by Walter Mitchell; The : Whitaker-Ray Co., for Columbus and “ Crossing the Plains," from The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller; The Mace millan Co., for “ At Gibraltar," from "North Shore Watch and Other Poems," by George Edward Woodberry.

The following poems are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers:

T. B. Aldrich, “A Turkish Legend,” “ Before the Rain," " Maple Leaves,” and “ Tiger Lilies "; Christopher P. Cranch, “The Bobo

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links "; Alice Cary, “ The Gray Swan"; Margaret Deland, “While

“ While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night”; Ralph Waldo Emerson,

“Forbearance," “ The Humble-Bee," “ Duty," “ The Rhodora, Concord Hymn,"

The Snow Storm,” and Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord; James T. Fields,“ Song of the Turtle and the Flamingo "; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Old Ironsides and “ The Chambered Nautilus "; John Hay, “ The Enchanted Shirt "; Julia Ward Howe, “Battle Hymn of the Republic "; Bret Harte, “ The Reveille " and “ A Greyport Legend?”; T. W. Higginson, “ The Snowing of the Pines ”; H. W. Longfellow, “ The Wreck of the Hesperus," “The Psalm of Life,” “Home Song,” “The Three Kings,” and “ The Harvest Moon”; James Russell Lowell, “Washington," extracts rom “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” “The Fatherland," "To the Dandelion," Singing Leaves,” and “ Stanzas on Freedom "; Lucy Larcom, Hannah Binding Shoes "; Edna Dean Proctor, “ Columbia's Emblem "; T. W. Parsons, “ Dirge for One Who Fell in Battle”; E. C. Stedman, “The Flight of the Birds” and “Going A-Nutting "; E. R. Sill, “ Opportunity "; W. W. Story, “ The English Language "; Celia Thaxter,

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“ The Sandpiper” and “Nikolina ”; J. T. Trowbridge, “ Evening at the Farm” and “Midwinter"; Bayard Taylor, “A Night With a Wolf” and “ The Song of the Camp "; J. G. Whittier, “ The Corn Song, "“ The Barefoot Boy,” “ Barbara Frietchie,” extracts from “ Snow-Bound,” “ Song of the Negro Boatman," and " The Pipes at Lucknow"; W. D. Howells, “In August ”; J. G. Saxe, “Solomon and the Bees."