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links"; Alice Cary, "The Gray Swan"; Mar-

garet Deland, "While Shepherds Watched

Their Flocks by Night"; Ralph Waldo Em-

erson, 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 Wen-

dell Holmes," Old Ironsides " and " The Cham-

bered Nautilus "; John Hay, "The Enchanted

Shirt"; Julia Ward Howe, "Battle Hymn

of the Republic "; Bret Harte,
"The Reveille

and "A Greyport Legend"; T. W. Higgin-

son, "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,

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"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 Bare-

"foot Boy," "Barbara Frietchie," extracts from

Snow-Bound," Song of the Negro Boat-

man," and "The Pipes at Lucknow "; W. D.

Howells, "In August "; J. G. Saxe, "Solo-

mon and the Bees."

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CONTENTS

A CHANTED CALENDAR

Daybreak. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Morning. By John Keats

A Morning Song. By William Shakespeare

Evening in Paradise. By John Milton

Evening Song. By John Fletcher

Night. By Robert Southey

A Fine Day. By Michael Drayton

The Seasons. By Edmund Spenser

The Eternal Spring. By John Milton

March. By William Cullen Bryant

Spring. By Thomas Carew

Song to April. By William Watson

April in England. By Robert Browning

April and May. By Ralph Waldo Emerson

May. By Edmund Spenser

Song on May Morning. By John Milton

Summer. By Edmund Spenser

June Weather. By James Russell Lowell

July. By Susan Hartley Swett

August. By Edmund Spenser

In August. By William Dean Howells

A CHANTED CALENDAR-Continued

Autumn. By Edmund Spenser

Sweet September. By George Arnold

Autumn's Processional. By Dinah M. Mulock

October's Bright Blue Weather. By H. H.

Maple Leaves. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Down to Sleep. By H. H.

Winter. By Edmund Spenser

When Icicles Hang by the Wall. By William

Shakespeare

A Winter Morning. By James Russell Lowell
The Snow Storm. By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old Winter. By Thomas Noel
Midwinter. By John Townsend Trowbridge
Dirge for the Year. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL

The World Beautiful. By John Milton

The Harvest Moon. By Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

The Cloud. By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Before the Rain. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Rain in Summer. By Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellow

Invocation to Rain in Summer. By William C.

Bennett

The Latter Rain. By Jones Very

The Wind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL-Continued

Ode to the Northeast Wind. By Charles Kings-

ley

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The Windy Night. By Thomas Buchanan Read 39

The Brook. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The Brook in Winter. By James Russell Lowell

Clear and Cool. By Charles Kingsley

Minnows. By John Keats

A Scene in Paradise. By John Milton

The Tiger. By William Blake

The Spacious Firmament on High. By Joseph

Addison

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Snow-Bound (Extracts). By John G. Whittier 46

Highland Cattle. By Dinah M. Mulock

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The Planting of the Apple Tree. By William

Cullen Bryant

The Apple Orchard in the Spring. By William

Martin

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Mine Host of "The Golden Apple." By Thom-

as Westwood

The Tree. By Jones Very

A Young Fir-Wood. By Dante G. Rossetti

GREEN THINGS GROWING

Green Things Growing. By Dinah M. Mulock 57

The Sigh of Silence. By John Keats

Under the Greenwood Tree. By William Shake-

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