NOTE.-My thanks are due and are herewith expressed to many publishers and authors for the use of their publications and their poems, and especially to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., to whom, as the publishers of Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Thoreau, Celia Thaxter, Aldrich, and others, I am deeply indebted.

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