McCLURE'S LIBRARY OF CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

EDITED BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH

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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GOLDEN NUMBERS

A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH

CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY

Kate Douglas Wiggin

AND

Nora Archibald Smith

WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERLEAVES BY

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

"To add to golden numbers, golden numbers."
Thomas Dekker.

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1909


Copyright, 1902, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, October, 1902, N

GOLDEN NUMBERS

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Hark! the numbers soft and clear
Gently steal upon the ear;
Now louder, and yet louder rise,
And fill with spreading sounds the skies;
Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes,
In broken air, trembling, the wild music floats.
Alexander Pope.

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A NOTE

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

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