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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

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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.

A NOTE

We are indebted to the following firms for permission to use poems mentioned:

Frederick Warne & Co., for poems of George Herbert and Reginald Heber; Small, Maynard & Co., for two poems by Walt Whitman, and "The Tax-Gatherer," by John B. Tabb; George Routledge & Son, for "Sir Lark and King Sun," George Macdonald; Longmans, Green & Co., for Andrew Lang's "Scythe Song"; Lee & Shepard, for "A Christmas Hymn," "Alfred Dommett," and "Minstrels and Maids," William Morris; J. B. Lippincott Co., for three poems by Thomas Buchanan Read; John Lane, for "The Forsaken Merman," Matthew Arnold, and "Song to April," William Watson; "The Skylark," Frederick Tennyson; E. P. Dutton & Co., for "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Phillips Brooks; Dana, Estes & Co., for "July," by Susan Hartley Swett; Little, Brown & Co., for poems of Christina G. Rossetti, and for the three poems, "The Grass," "The Bee," and "Chartless" by Emily Dickinson; D. Appleton & Co., publishers of Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, for "March," "Planting of the Apple Tree," "To the Fringed Gentian," "Death of Flowers," "To a Waterfowl," and "The Twenty-second of December"; Charles Scribner's Sons, for "The Wind" and "A Visit from the Sea," both taken from "A Child's Garden of Verses"; "The Angler's Reveille," from "The Toiling of Felix"; "Dear Land of All My Love," from "Poems of Sidney Lanier," and "The Three Kings," 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 Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller; The Macmillan Co., for "At Gibraltar," from "North Shore Watch and Other Poems," by George Edward Woodberry.

The following poems are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin Co., the authorized publishers:

T. B. Aldrich, "A Turkish Legend," "Before the Rain," "Maple Leaves," and "Tiger Lilies"; Christopher P. Cranch, "The Bobolinks"; Alice Cary, "The Gray Swan"; Margaret Deland, "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night"; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Forbearance," "The Humble-Bee," "Duty," "The Rhodora," "Concord Hymn," "The Snow Storm," and Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord; James T. Fields, "Song of the Turtle and the Flamingo"; Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"; John Hay, "The Enchanted Shirt"; Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; Bret Harte, "The Reveille" and "A Greyport Legend"; T. W. Higginson, "The Snowing of the Pines"; H. W. Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Psalm of Life," "Home Song," "The Three Kings," and "The Harvest Moon"; James Russell Lowell, "Washington," extracts from "The Vision of Sir Launfal," "The Fatherland," "To the Dandelion," "The Singing Leaves," and "Stanzas on Freedom"; Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"; Edna Dean Proctor, "Columbia's Emblem"; T. W. Parsons, "Dirge for One Who Fell in Battle"; E. C. Stedman, "The Flight of the Birds" and "Going A-Nutting"; E. R. Sill, "Opportunity"; W. W. Story, "The English Language"; Celia Thaxter, "The Sandpiper" and "Nikolina"; J. T. Trowbridge, "Evening at the Farm" and "Midwinter"; Bayard Taylor, "A Night With a Wolf" and "The Song of the Camp"; J. G. Whittier, "The Corn Song," "The Barefoot Boy," "Barbara Frietchie," extracts from "Snow-Bound," "Song of the Negro Boatman," and "The Pipes at Lucknow"; W. D. Howells, "In August"; J. G. Saxe, "Solomon and the Bees."

CONTENTS

A CHANTED CALENDAR Page

Daybreak. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 1
Morning. By _John Keats_ 1
A Morning Song. By _William Shakespeare_ 2
Evening in Paradise. By _John Milton_ 2
Evening Song. By _John Fletcher_ 3
Night. By _Robert Southey_ 4
A Fine Day. By _Michael Drayton_ 5
The Seasons. By _Edmund Spenser_ 5
The Eternal Spring. By _John Milton_ 5
March. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 6
Spring. By _Thomas Carew_ 7
Song to April. By _William Watson_ 7
April in England. By _Robert Browning_ 8
April and May. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 9
May. By _Edmund Spenser_ 9
Song on May Morning. By _John Milton_ 10
Summer. By _Edmund Spenser_ 10
June Weather. By _James Russell Lowell_ 11
July. By _Susan Hartley Swett_ 13
August. By _Edmund Spenser_ 14
In August. By _William Dean Howells_ 14
Autumn. By _Edmund Spenser_ 15
Sweet September. By _George Arnold_ 15
Autumn's Processional. By _Dinah M. Mulock_ 16
October's Bright Blue Weather. By _H. H._ 16
Maple Leaves. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 17
Down to Sleep. By _H. H._ 18
Winter. By _Edmund Spenser_ 19
When Icicles Hang by the Wall. By _William Shakespeare_ 19
A Winter Morning. By _James Russell Lowell_ 20
The Snow Storm. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 21
Old Winter. By _Thomas Noel_ 22
Midwinter. By _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 23
Dirge for the Year. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 25

THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL

The World Beautiful. By _John Milton_ 27
The Harvest Moon. By _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 27
The Cloud. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 28
Before the Rain. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 31
Rain in Summer. By _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 32
Invocation to Rain in Summer. By _William C. Bennett_ 34
The Latter Rain. By _Jones Very_ 35
The Wind. By _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 35
Ode to the Northeast Wind. By _Charles Kingsley_ 36
The Windy Night. By _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 39
The Brook. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 40
The Brook in Winter. By _James Russell Lowell_ 42
Clear and Cool. By _Charles Kingsley_ 44
Minnows. By _John Keats_ 45
Snow-Bound (Extracts). By _John G. Whittier_ 46
Highland Cattle. By _Dinah M. Mulock_ 50
A Scene in Paradise. By _John Milton_ 52
The Tiger. By _William Blake_ 53
The Spacious Firmament on High. By _Joseph Addison_ 54

GREEN THINGS GROWING

Green Things Growing. By _Dinah M. Mulock_ 57
The Sigh of Silence. By _John Keats_ 58
Under the Greenwood Tree. By _William Shakespeare_ 59
The Planting of the Apple Tree. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 59
The Apple Orchard in the Spring. By _William Martin_ 63
Mine Host of "The Golden Apple." By _Thomas Westwood_ 64
The Tree. By _Jones Very_ 65
A Young Fir-Wood. By _Dante G. Rossetti_ 65
The Snowing of the Pines. By _Thomas W. Higginson_ 66
The Procession of the Flowers. By _Sydney Dobell_ 67
Sweet Peas. By _John Keats_ 68
A Snowdrop. By _Harriet Prescott Spofford_ 69
Almond Blossom. By _Sir Edwin Arnold_ 69
Wild Rose. By _William Allingham_ 70
Tiger-Lilies. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 71
To the Fringed Gentian. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 72
To a Mountain Daisy. By _Robert Burns_ 73
Bind-Weed. By _Susan Coolidge_ 74
The Rhodora. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 76
A Song of Clover. By "_Saxe Holm_" 76
To the Dandelion (Extract). By _James Russell Lowell_ 77
To Daffodils. By _Robert Herrick_ 78
The Daffodils. By _William Wordsworth_ 79
The White Anemone. By _Owen Meredith_ 80
The Grass. By _Emily Dickinson_ 81
The Corn-Song. By _John G. Whittier_ 82
Columbia's Emblem. By _Edna Dean Proctor_ 84
Scythe Song. By _Andrew Lang_ 86
Time to Go. By _Susan Coolidge_ 86
The Death of the Flowers. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 88
Autumn's Mirth. By _Samuel Minturn Peck_ 90

ON THE WING

Sing On, Blithe Bird. By _William Motherwell_ 93
To a Skylark. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 94
Sir Lark and King Sun: A Parable. By _George Macdonald_ 99
The Skylark. By _Frederick Tennyson_ 101
The Skylark. By _James Hogg_ 102
The Bobolinks. By _Christopher P. Cranch_ 103
To a Waterfowl. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 105
Goldfinches. By _John Keats_ 107
The Sandpiper. By _Celia Thaxter_ 107
The Eagle. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 109
Child's Talk in April. By _Christina G. Rossetti_ 109
The Flight of the Birds. By _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 111
The Shepherd's Home. By _William Shenstone_ 112
To a Cricket. By _William C. Bennett_ 113
On the Grasshopper and Cricket. By _John Keats_ 114
The Tax-Gatherer. By _John B. Tabb_ 114
To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. By _Leigh Hunt_ 115
The Bee. By _Emily Dickinson_ 116
The Humble-Bee. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 116
All Things Wait Upon Thee. By _Christina G. Rossetti_ 119
Providence. By _Reginald Heber_ 119

THE INGLENOOK

A New Household. By _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 121
Two Heavens. By _Leigh Hunt_ 121
A Song of Love. By "_Lewis Carroll_" 122
Mother's Song. _Unknown_ 123
The Bonniest Bairn in a' the Warl'. By _Robert Ford_ 125
Cuddle Doon. By _Alexander Anderson_ 126
I am Lonely. By _George Eliot_ 128
Brother and Sister. By _George Eliot_ 129
Home. By _William Ernest Henley_ 131
Love Will Find Out the Way. _Unknown_ 133
The Sailor's Wife. By _William J. Mickle_ 134
Evening at the Farm. By _John Townsend Trowbridge_ 136
Home Song. By _Henry W. Longfellow_ 138
Etude Realiste. By _Algernon C. Swinburne_ 139
We Are Seven. By _William Wordsworth_ 141

FAIRY SONGS AND SONGS OF FANCY

Puck and the Fairy. By _William Shakespeare_ 145
Lullaby for Titania. By _William Shakespeare_ 146
Oberon and Titania to the Fairy Train.
By _William Shakespeare_ 147
Ariel's Songs. By _William Shakespeare_ 147
Orpheus with His Lute. By _William Shakespeare_ 149
The Arming of Pigwiggen. By _Michael Drayton_ 149
Hesperus' Song. By _Ben Jonson_ 151
L'Allegro (Extracts). By _John Milton_ 152
Sabrina Fair. By _John Milton_ 157
Alexander's Feast. By _John Dryden_ 158
Kubla Khan. By _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 160
The Magic Car Moved On. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 162
Arethusa. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 165
The Culprit Fay (Extracts). By _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 168
A Myth. By _Charles Kingsley_ 173
The Fairy Folk. By _William Allingham_ 174
The Merman. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 177
The Mermaid. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 178
Bugle Song. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 181
The Raven. By _Edgar Allan Poe_ 182
The Bells. By _Edgar Allan Poe_ 189

SPORTS AND PASTIMES

Blowing Bubbles. By _William Allingham_ 195
Bicycling Song. By _Henry C. Beeching_ 196
Going A Maying. By _Robert Herrick_ 197
Jog On, Jog On. By _William Shakespeare_ 200
A Vagabond Song. By _Bliss Carman_ 201
Swimming. By _Algernon C. Swinburne_ 201
Swimming. By _Lord Byron_ 202
The Angler's Reveille. By _Henry van Dyke_ 203
The Angler's Invitation. By _Thomas Tod Stoddart_ 207
Skating. By _William Wordsworth_ 207
Reading. By _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 209
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. By _John Keats_ 210
Music's Silver Sound. By _William Shakespeare_ 210
The Power of Music. By _William Shakespeare_ 211
Descend, Ye Nine! By _Alexander Pope_ 212
Old Song. By _Edward Fitzgerald_ 213
The Barefoot Boy. By _John G. Whittier_ 214
Leolin and Edith. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 218
Going A-Nutting. By _Edmund Clarence Stedman_ 219
Whittling. By _John Pierpont_ 220
Hunting Song. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 222
The Hunter's Song. By _Barry Cornwall_ 223
The Blood Horse. By _Barry Cornwall_ 225
The Northern Seas. By _William Howitt_ 226
The Needle. By _Samuel Woodwork_ 228

A GARDEN OF GIRLS

A Portrait. By _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 231
Little Bell. By _Thomas Westwood_ 234
A Child of Twelve. By _Percy Bysshe Shelley_ 237
Chloe. By _Robert Burns_ 238
O, Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet. By _Robert Burns_ 239
Who Is Silvia? By _William Shakespeare_ 240
To Mistress Margaret Hussey. By _John Skelton_ 240
Ruth. By _Thomas Hood_ 242
My Peggy. By _Allan Ramsay_ 243
Annie Laurie. By _William Douglas_ 243
Lucy. By _William Wordsworth_ 245
Jessie. By _Bret Harte_ 246
Olivia. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 247
Nikolina. By _Celia Thaxter_ 248
The Solitary Reaper. By _William Wordsworth_ 249
Helena and Hermia. By _William Shakespeare_ 250
Phyllis. By _William Drummond_ 251
So Sweet is She. By _Ben Jonson_ 251
I Love My Jean. By _Robert Burns_ 252
My Nannie's Awa'. By _Robert Burns_ 253

THE WORLD OF WATERS

To the Ocean. By _Lord Byron_ 255
A Life on the Ocean Wave. By _Epes Sargent_ 257
The Sea. By _Barry Cornwall_ 258
A Sea-Song. By _Allan Cunningham_ 259
A Visit from the Sea. By _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 261
Drifting. By _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 262
Tacking Ship Off Shore. By _Walter Mitchell_ 265
Windlass Song. By _William Allingham_ 268
The Coral Grove. By _James Gates Percival_ 269
The Shell. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 270
Bermudas. By _Andrew Marvell_ 272
Where Lies the Land? By _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 273

FOR HOME AND COUNTRY

The First, Best Country. By _Oliver Goldsmith_ 275
My Native Land. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 276
Loyalty. By _Allan Cunningham_ 276
My Heart's in the Highlands. By _Robert Burns_ 277
The Minstrel Boy. By _Thomas Moore_ 278
The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls.
By _Thomas Moore_ 279
Fife and Drum. By _John Dryden_ 280
The Cavalier's Song. By _William Motherwell_ 280
The Old Scottish Cavalier. By _Wm. Edmondstoune Aytoun_ 281
The Song of the Camp. By _Bayard Taylor_ 284
Border Ballad. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 286
Gathering Song of Donuil Dhu. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 287
The Reveille. By _Bret Harte_ 288
Ye Mariners of England. By _Thomas Campbell_ 290
The Knight's Tomb. By _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 292
How Sleep the Brave! By _William Collins_ 292
Dirge. By _Thomas William Parsons_ 293
The Burial of Sir John Moore. By _Charles Wolfe_ 295
Soldier, Rest! By _Sir Walter Scott_ 296
Recessional. By _Rudyard Kipling_ 297
The Fatherland. By _James Russell Lowell_ 298

NEW WORLD AND OLD GLORY

Dear Land of All My Love. By _Sidney Lanier_ 301
Columbus. By _Joaquin Miller_ 301
Pocahontas. By _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 303
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. By _Felicia Hemans_ 305
The Twenty-second of December. By _William Cullen Bryant_ 306
Washington. By _James Russell Lowell_ 307
Warren's Address. By _John Pierpont_ 308
Carmen Bellicosum. By _Guy Humphreys McMaster_ 309
The American Flag. By _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 311
Old Ironsides. By _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 312
Indians. By _Charles Sprague_ 313
Crossing the Plains. By _Joaquin Miller_ 314
Concord Hymn. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 315
Ode. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 316
Stanzas on Freedom. By _James Russell Lowell_ 317
Abraham Lincoln. By _Richard Henry Stoddard_ 318
Lincoln, the Great Commoner. By _Edwin Markham_ 319
Abraham Lincoln. By _Henry Howard Brownell_ 321
O Captain! My Captain! By _Walt Whitman_ 323
The Flag Goes By. By _Henry Holcomb Bennett_ 324
The Black Regiment. By _George Henry Boker_ 326
Night Quarters. By _Henry Howard Brownell_ 329
Battle-Hymn of the Republic. By _Julia Ward Howe_ 331
Sheridan's Ride. By _Thomas Buchanan Read_ 332
Song of the Negro Boatman. By _John G. Whittier_ 335
Barbara Frietchie. By _John G. Whittier_ 337
Two Veterans. By _Walt Whitman_ 340
Stand by the Flag! By _John Nichols Wilder_ 342
At Gibraltar. By _George Edward Woodberry_ 343
Faith and Freedom. By _William Wordsworth_ 345
Our Mother Tongue. By _Lord Houghton_ 345
The English Language (Extracts). By _William Wetmore Story_ 346
To America. By _Alfred Austin_ 347
The Name of Old Glory. By _James Whitcomb Riley_ 349

IN MERRY MOOD
On a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes.
By _Thomas Gray_ 353
The Priest and the Mulberry Tree. By _Thomas Love Peacock_ 355
The Council of Horses. By _John Gay_ 356
The Diverting History of John Gilpin. By _William Cowper_ 359
To a Child of Quality. By _Matthew Prior_ 369
Charade. By _Winthrop M. Praed_ 370
A Riddle. By _Hannah More_ 371
A Riddle. By _Jonathan Swift_ 372
A Riddle. By _Catherine M. Fanshawe_ 373
Feigned Courage. By _Charles and Mary Lamb_ 374
Baucis and Philemon. By _Jonathan Swift_ 375
The Lion and the Cub. By _John Gay_ 378
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. By _Oliver Goldsmith_ 379
The Walrus and the Carpenter. By "_Lewis Carroll_" 381
Song of the Turtle and Flamingo. By _James T. Fields_ 385
Captain Reece. By _William S. Gilbert_ 387
The Cataract of Lodore. By _Robert Southey_ 391
The Enchanted Shirt. By _John Hay_ 395
Made in the Hot Weather. By _William Ernest Henley_ 398
The Housekeeper. By _Charles Lamb_ 400
The Monkey. By _Mary Howitt_ 401
November. By _Thomas Hood_ 402
Captain Sword. By _Leigh Hunt_ 403

STORY POEMS: ROMANCE AND REALITY

The Singing Leaves. By _James Russell Lowell_ 407
Seven Times Two. By _Jean Ingelow_ 411
The Long White Seam. By _Jean Ingelow_ 413
Hannah Binding Shoes. By _Lucy Larcom_ 414
Lord Ullin's Daughter. By _Thomas Campbell_ 416
The King of Denmark's Ride. By _Caroline E. Norton_ 418
The Shepherd to His Love. By _Christopher Marlowe_ 420
Ballad. By _Charles Kingsley_ 422
Romance of the Swan's Nest. By _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 423
Lochinvar. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 427
Jock of Hazeldean. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 430
The Lady of Shalott. By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 431
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire.
By _Jean Ingelow_ 438
The Forsaken Merman. By _Matthew Arnold_ 444
The Sands of Dee. By _Charles Kingsley_ 450
The "Gray Swan." By _Alice Gary_ 452
The Wreck of the Hesperus. By _Henry W. Longfellow_ 454
A Greyport Legend. By _Bret Harte_ 458
The Glove and the Lions. By _Leigh Hunt_ 460
How's My Boy? By _Sydney Dobell_ 462
The Child-Musician. By _Austin Dobson_ 463
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.
By _Robert Browning_ 464
The Inchcape Rock. By _Robert Southey_ 468
A Night with a Wolf. By _Bayard Taylor_ 471
The Dove of Dacca. By _Rudyard Kipling_ 472
The Abbot of Inisfalen. By _William Allingham_ 474
The Cavalier's Escape. By _George Walter Thornbury_ 479
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By _Robert Browning_ 480
Herve Riel. By _Robert Browning_ 493
Vision of Belshazzar. By _Lord Byron_ 500
Solomon and the Bees. By _John G. Saxe_ 502
The Burial of Moses. By _Cecil Frances Alexander_ 504

WHEN BANNERS ARE WAVING

When Banners Are Waving. _Unknown_ 509
Battle of the Baltic. By _Thomas Campbell_ 511
The Pipes at Lucknow. By _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 514
The Battle of Agincourt. By _Michael Drayton_ 517
The Battle of Blenheim. By _Robert Southey_ 522
The Armada. By _Lord Macaulay_ 524
Ivry. By _Lord Macaulay_ 530
On the Loss of the Royal George. By _William Cowper_ 535
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
By _Alfred, Lord Tennyson_ 537
Bannockburn. By _Robert Burns_ 539
The Night Before Waterloo. By _Lord Byron_ 540
Hohenlinden. By _Thomas Campbell_ 542
Incident of the French Camp. By _Robert Browning_ 544
Marco Bozzaris. By _Fitz-Greene Halleck_ 545
The Destruction of Sennacherib. By _Lord Byron_ 548

TALES OF THE OLDEN TIME

Sir Patrick Spens. _Old Ballad_ 551
The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington. _Old Ballad_ 555
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury. _Old Ballad_ 558
Lord Beichan and Susie Pye. _Old Ballad_ 563
The Gay Gos-hawk. _Old Ballad_ 569
Earl Mar's Daughter. _Old Ballad_ 576
Chevy-Chace. _Old Ballad_ 582
Hynde Horn. _Old Ballad_ 593
Glenlogie. _Old Ballad_ 597

LIFE LESSONS

Life. By _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 601
In a Child's Album. By _William Wordsworth_ 602
To-Day. By _Thomas Carlyle_ 602
The Noble Nature. By _Ben Jonson_ 603
Forbearance. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 603
The Chambered Nautilus. By _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 604
Duty. By _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 605
On His Blindness. By _John Milton_ 606
Sir Launfal and the Leper. By _James Russell Lowell_ 606
Opportunity. By _Edward Rowland Sill_ 608
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel. By _Leigh Hunt_ 609
Be True. By _Horatio Bonar_ 610
The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation.
By _John Bunyan_ 610
A Turkish Legend. By _Thomas Bailey Aldrich_ 611
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By _Thomas Gray_ 612
Polonius to Laertes. By _William Shakespeare_ 618
The Olive-Tree. By _S. Baring-Gould_ 619
Coronation. By _H. H._ 620
December. By _John Keats_ 622
The End of the Play. By _William Makepeace Thackeray_ 623
A Farewell. By _Charles Kingsley_ 625
A Boy's Prayer. By _Henry C. Beeching_ 626
Chartless. By _Emily Dickinson_ 626
Peace. By _Henry Vaughan_ 627
Consider. By _Christina G. Rossetti_ 628
The Elixir. By _George Herbert_ 629
One by One. By _Adelaide A. Procter_ 629
The Commonwealth of the Bees. By _William Shakespeare_ 631
The Pilgrim. By _John Bunyan_ 632
Be Useful. By _George Herbert_ 633

THE GLAD EVANGEL

A Christmas Carol. By _Josiah Gilbert Holland_ 635
The Angels. By _William Drummond_ 636
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night.
By _Margaret Deland_ 637
The Star Song. By _Robert Herrick_ 638
Hymn for Christmas. By _Felicia Hemans_ 639
New Prince, New Pomp. By _Robert Southwell_ 640
The Three Kings. By _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 641
The Three Kings. By _Eugene Field_ 644
A Christmas Hymn. By _Alfred Dommett_ 646
O Little Town of Bethlehem. By _Phillips Brooks_ 648
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night.
By _Nahum Tate_ 649
Christmas Carol. _Old English_ 650
Old Christmas. By _Mary Howitt_ 652
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen. By _Dinah Maria Mulock_ 653
Minstrels and Maids. By _William Morris_ 654
An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour. By _Robert Herrick_ 656
Old Christmas Returned. _Old English_ 657
Ceremonies for Christmas. By _Robert Herrick_ 658
Christmas in England. By _Sir Walter Scott_ 659
The Gracious Time. By _William Shakespeare_ 661
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning.
By _Reginald Heber_ 661