A VERS DE SOCIÉTÉANTHOLOGY

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Copyright 1907 by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Published November, 1907

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NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby gratefullymade to the publishers for permission to usepoems by the following authors:

To Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company forpoems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Oliver WendellHolmes, James Russell Lowell, John GreenleafWhittier, Bret Harte, John G. Saxe, Norah Perry,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James T. Field,Edith Thomas, Edmund Clarence Stedman andCharles Henry Webb.

To Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Company for poemsby Austin Dobson.

To the Macmillan Company for poems by LewisCarroll.

To Messrs. D. Appleton and Company for“Song,” by William Cullen Bryant.

To The Century Company for poems by RobertUnderwood Johnson and Mary Mapes Dodge.

To Messrs. Little, Brown and Company for “AValentine,” by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, and“Shadows” and “Les Papillottes,” by GertrudeHall.

To Messrs. G. P. Putnam’s Sons for “The Debutante,”by Guy Wetmore Carryl.

To The Frederick A. Stokes Company for poemsby Frank Dempster Sherman and Samuel MinturnPeck.

To The Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Companyfor poems by Sam Walter Foss.

To Messrs. E. H. Bacon and Company for poemsby James Jeffrey Roche.

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