Smith, Elder & Co. for a similar favour, also for a copyright
poem by Mrs. Browning; to Mr. George Allen for extracts from
Ruskin and the author of Ionica; to Messrs. G. Bell & Sons for
poems by Thomas Ashe; to Messrs. Chatto & Windus for poems by
Arthur O'Shaughnessy and Dr. George MacDonald, and for confirming
Mr. Bret Harte's permission; to Mr. Elkin Mathews for a poem by
Mr. Bliss Carman; to Mr. John Lane for two poems by William
Brighty Rands; to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
for two extracts from Christina Rossetti's Verses; and to Mr.
Bertram Dobell, who allows me not only to select from James
Thomson but to use a poem of Traherne's, a seventeenth-century
singer rediscovered by him. To mention all who in other ways have
furthered me is not possible in this short Preface; which,
however, must not conclude without a word of special thanks to Dr.
W. Robertson Nicoll for many suggestions and some pains kindly
bestowed, and to Professor F. York Powell, whose help and wise
counsel have been as generously given as they were eagerly sought,
adding me to the number of those many who have found his learning
to be his friends' good fortune.
October 1900
A.T.Q.C.


Anonymous. c. 1250

1. Cuckoo Song

SUMER is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,