Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Hark! the numbers soft and clear 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. GOLDEN NUMBERS A BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUTH CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY Kate Douglas Wiggin AND Kora Archibald Smith WITH INTRODUCTION AND INTERLEAVES BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AVAH "To add to golden numbers, golden_numbers.” THOMAS DEKKER. NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MVR A NOTE WE are indebted to the following firms for permission to use poems mentioned: 66 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," Phil lips Brooks; Dana, Estes & Co., for " July," by Susan Hartley Swett; Little, Brown & Co., for poems of Christina G. Rossetti, and for the three |