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. AND I too sing the song of all creation, Herbert Bashford. 'MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, There's no place like Home! there's no place like Home! An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain ; There's no place like Home! there's no place like Home! |