ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS


It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors
are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an
instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems
that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her
annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the
poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this
volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or
publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has,
for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish
to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so
kindly allowed us to use their material.

To HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, of Boston, we are indebted for
the use of the following poems: From the copyrighted works of
Longfellow--"The Arrow and the Song," "A Fragment of Hiawatha's
Childhood," "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Wreck of the
_Hesperus_," "The Ship of State," "The Psalm of Life," "The
Village Blacksmith." From Whittier--"Barbara Frietchie" and "The
_Three Bells_ of Glasgow." From Emerson--"The Problem." From
Burroughs--"My Own Shall Come to Me." From Lowell--"The Finding of
the Lyre," "The Shepherd of King Admetus," and a fragment of "The