GOLDEN NUMBERS
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH
THE POSY RING
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN
PINAFORE PALACE
A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY
Library of Fairy Literature
THE FAIRY RING
MAGIC CASEMENTS A SECOND FAIRY BOOK
OTHER VOLUMES TO FOLLOW
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NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1909
Copyright, 1902, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, October, 1902, N
We are indebted to the following firms for permission to use poemsmentioned:
Frederick Warne & Co., for poems of George Herbert and Reginald Heber;Small, Maynard & Co., for two poems by Walt Whitman, and "TheTax-Gatherer," by John B. Tabb; George Routledge & Son, for "Sir Larkand King Sun," George Macdonald; Longmans, Green & Co., for AndrewLang's "Scythe Song"; Lee & Shepard, for "A Christmas Hymn," "AlfredDommett," and "Minstrels and Maids," William Morris; J. B. LippincottCo., for three poems by Thomas Buchanan Read; John Lane, for "TheForsaken Merman," Matthew Arnold, and "Song to April," William Watson;"The Skylark," Frederick Tennyson; E. P. Dutton & Co., for "O LittleTown of Bethlehem," Phillips Brooks; Dana, Estes & Co., for "July," bySusan Hartley Swett; Little, Brown & Co., for poems of Christina G.Rossetti, and for the three[Pg vi] poems, "The Grass," "The Bee," and"Chartless" by Emily Dickinson; D. Appleton & Co., publishers ofBryant's Complete Poetical Works, for "March," "Planting of the AppleTree," "To the Fringed Gentian," "Death of Flowers," "To a Waterfowl,"and "The Twenty-second of December"; Charles Scribner's Sons, for "TheWind" and "A Visit from the Sea," both taken from "A Child's Garden ofVerses"; "The Angler's Reveille," from "The Toiling of Felix"; "DearLand of All My Love," from "Poems of Sidney Lanier," and "The ThreeKings," from "With Trumpet and Drum," by Eugene Field; The Churchman,for "Tacking Ship Off Shore," by Walter Mitchell; The Whitaker-Ray Co.,for "Columbus" and "Crossing the Plains," from The Complete PoeticalWorks of Joaquin Miller; The Macmillan Co., for "At Gibra