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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to Mr. Bliss Carman for permission to use two of his poems, "The Daisies" and "The Dustman," from "Poems from Vagabondia," published by Small, Maynard Company; to Mr. Richard Le Gallienne and the Century Company for permission to use the poem "The Pine Lady"; to Laura E. Richards for permission to include "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe; to Katherine Tynan Hinkson for "Daffodil" and "Chanticleer"; to G. P. Putnam & Sons for permission to use "White Horses," by Hamish Hendry; and to The MacMillian Company for permission to use "The Owlet" and "The Song of the Elf" by Madison Cawein. The selection from Frank Dempster Sherman is used by permission of, and special arrangement with, the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publication of his works.