DEDICATION--TO MY WIFE



Take, dear, my little sheaf of songs,
For, old or new,
All that is good in them belongs
Only to you;

And, singing as when all was young,
They will recall
Those others, lived but left unsung -
The bent of all.
W. E. H
APRIL 1888
SEPTEMBER 1897.



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My friend and publisher, Mr. Alfred Nutt, asks me to introduce this
re-issue of old work in a new shape. At his request, then, I have
to say that nearly all the numbers contained in the present volume
are reprinted from 'A Book of Verses' (1888) and 'London
Voluntaries' (1892-3). From the first of these I have removed some