ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE poems by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Edward Rowland Sill, Bayard Taylor, Celia Thaxter, and John Greenleaf Whittier are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of the works of those authors. The poem entitled "Flying Fish," by Mary Fenollosa, is used by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, publishers. The "Legend of the West Highlands," from Robert Louis Stevenson's longer poem, "Ticonderoga," is reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.

PART ONE

AND I too sing the song of all creation,
A brave sky, and a glad wind blowing by,
A clear trail and an hour for meditation,
A long day, and the joy to make it fly;
A hard task and the muscle to achieve it,
A fierce noon and a well-contented gloam,
A good strife and no great regret to leave it,
A still night and the far red lights of home.

Herbert Bashford.

'MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;
A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home!

There's no place like Home! there's no place like Home!

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain ;
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!
The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,
Give me them, and the peace of mind, dearer than all!
Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home!

There's no place like Home! there's no place like Home!