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For permission to use the copyrighted material included in this volume,
the compiler is indebted to the following authors and publishers, whose
courtesy is here gratefully acknowledged:

D. Appleton & Company: The poems by William Cullen Bryant and
Henry Newbolt.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company: The poems by James Whitcomb Riley,
from the Biographical Edition of his complete works, copyright 1913.
The Century Company: The poems by Richard Watson Gilder and
William Tuckey Meredith.

Dana, Estes & Company: The poems by Laura E. Richards.
Dodd, Mead & Company: The poem by Austin Dobson.

George H. Doran Company: The poem by Joyce Kilmer, "Trees," from
"Trees and Other Poems."

Houghton Mifflin Company: The poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
Abbie Farwell Brown, Phoebe Cary, John Vance Cheney, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Richard Watson Gilder,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy Larcom, Henry Wadsworth Long-
fellow, James Russell Lowell, Nora Perry, Edward Rowland Sill,
Edmund Clarence Stedman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard Taylor,
Celia Thaxter, Henry David Thoreau, John Townsend Trowbridge,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, John Greenleaf Whittier.

John Lane Company: The poems by Henry Newbolt and Francis
Thompson.

Little, Brown & Company: The poems by Susan Coolidge, Emily Dickin-
son, and Helen Hunt Jackson.

Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Company: The poems by Emilie Poulsson,
"The Breakfast Song," Baby's Breakfast," "Bed-time Song,"
and "The Lovable Child," from "Child Stories and Rhymes."
The Page Company: The poems by Bliss Carman and Charles G. D.
Roberts.

G. P. Putnam's Sons: The poems by Norman Gale and Burges Johnson.
Charles Scribner's Sons: The poems by Mary Mapes Dodge, Eugene

Field, Josiah Gilbert Holland, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis
Stevenson, and Henry Van Dyke.

Small, Maynard & Company: The poems by Richard Hovey, John B.
Tabb, and Walt Whitman.

F. A. Stokes Company: The poems by Gelett Burgess and Alfred Noyes.
Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Company: The poem by Joaquin Miller.

Express personal permission has been received by the compiler from
the following authors for the use of such of their poems as appear in
this collection, all rights to which are reserved by them:
Henry Abbey, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Abbie Farwell Brown, Gelett
Burgess, Charles E. Carryl, W. H. Carruth, John Vance Cheney,
G. K. Chesterton, Margaret Deland, Austin Dobson, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Sam Walter Foss, Hamlin Garland, Helena de Kay Gilder
(for Richard Watson Gilder), Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Joyce
Kilmer, Robert Loveman, Henry Newbolt, Alfred Noyes, Emilie
Poulsson, Laura E. Richards, Margaret Sangster, Edmund Hamil-
ton Sears, William Force Stead, Laura Stedman (for Edmund
Clarence Stedman), John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Van Dyke,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Το

ELIZABETH, LIZZIE,

BETSY, AND BESS

THE ARGUMENT OF THIS BOOK

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers,
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers;

I sing of dews, of rains, and, piece by piece,
Of balm, of oil, of spice, and ambergris.
I sing of times trans-shifting; and I write
How roses first came red, and lilies white;
I write of groves, of twilights, and I sing
The court of Mab, and of the Fairy King.