COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



The author and publisher are indebted to the Houghton MiiBin 

 Company for special permission to use selections from the works of 

 John Vance Cheney, Lowell, Stedman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Emer- 

 son, Holmes, Browning, Edgar Fawcett, John Burroughs, William 

 Vaughn Moody, Longfellow, Anna Boynton Averill, Edith M. Thomas, 

 William Dean Hbwells, Thoreau, Lloyd Mifflin, Trowbridge, A. West, 

 Maurice Thompson, Joseph Howe and Percy Mackaye; and to D. 

 Appleton & Company for selections from Bryant's poems, "March" 

 and "To a Waterfowl" and for selections from Dr. Frank M. Chap- 

 man's "Birds of Eastern North America"; to the Macmillan Company 

 for selections from the poems of Maud Keary and Percy Mackaye; 

 to Little, Brown & Company for a poem by Christina Rossetti; to 

 J. B. Lippincott Company for a selection from "The Lonely-Bird," 

 by Harrison Smith Morris ; for a number of selections from poems by 

 Riley, from the Biographical Edition of the complete works of James 

 Whitcomb Riley, copyright 1913, and by special permission of the 

 publishers. The Bobbs-Merrill Company; to Charles Scribner's Sons 

 for selections from "The Builders and Other Poems" and "Music and 

 Other Poems" and "God of the Open Air," by Henry Van Dyke, and 

 for the poem "January," by L. H. Bailey; to Srnall, Maynard & Com- 

 pany for selections from the poems of Bliss Carman and John B. Tabb; 

 to Doubleday, Page & Company for the poem "Little Brothers of the 

 Ground," from "The Man With the Hoe," by Edwin Markham, and 

 for selections from "Far Quests," by Cale Young Rice; to Stewart & 

 Kidd Company for the poem "My Catbird," by William H. Venable; 

 to the Yale University Press for a selection from "A Page's Road 

 Song," by Alex. William Percy; to Mitchell Kennerley for the poem 

 "Phoebe," by Witter Bynner; to The Baker & Taylor Company for a 

 selection from "June Rapture," by Angela Morgan; and to Dr. Frank 

 M. Chapman for a quotation from "Bird Lore." 



Thanks are also due to the authors already named and to the fol- 

 lowing authors for the use of selections from their poems: Ethelwyn 

 Wetherald, Irene Elder Morton, Joyce Kilmer, Louis Untermeyer, 

 Thos. S. Jones, Jr., Wm. W. Caldwell, Catherine Van D. Harkee, 

 Charles Shepard Parke, Katherine Tynan, Ina D. Coolbrith, Nellie 

 Hart Woodworth, Charlotte Smith, George Murray, Robert Bridges, 

 Joel Benton, Mary Augusta Mason, Marjorie Picjcthall, Mary Howitt, 

 Thomas Hill, Hamlin Garland, Marion Franklin Ham, P. McArthur, 

 Adelaide Proctor, Ellen P. Allerton, S. Frances Harrison, C. P., Cleave- 

 land, Henry Abbey, Edna Dean Proctor, Amos Bryant Russell, Frances 

 Mace, Mary Isabella Forsythe, Sarah Orne Jewett, James J. Daly, 

 Alice Brown, George S. Vireck, Sarah Piatt, Wm, Gilmore Simms, 

 Rose Terry Cook, Mary A. Townsend; and to Angela Morgan for 

 quotation from the poem "June Rapture" in "The Hour Has Struck 

 and Other Poems." 



