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are poems naturally belonging to such a collection, 

 which, it is to be regretted, are not here ; that 

 always has to happen. " I have the honour " 

 that is all. Yet one word more begs for place : 

 That these poems might never have been gathered 

 into one company had not its collector been brought 

 up in a garden, a story-teller's garden, and grown 

 up with it, a loving companion of its birds, its 

 flowers, its bees and butterflies, its bordering and 

 intersecting waters, the clouds in the blue above 

 it, its liberty and all its disciplinary order and 

 resultant loveliness. 



GEORGE W. CABLE. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 

 July 1911. 



