PREFACE
Mr. Laurence Binyon for "Asoka";
Mr. Hilaire Belloc and Messrs. Duckworth for
'The South Country";
Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson for R. Brooke's
"tTie Great Lover15; and Edmund Blunden's
"Almswomen";
Messrs. Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Ltd., for
the two poems of D. H. Laurence, "Snake"
and "Man and Bat";
Mr. W. B. Yeats and A. P. Watt & Son and
Messrs. Macmillan for "The Lake Isle of
Innisfree" and the "'Rose of the World";
Walter De La Mare and Messrs. James B. Pinker &
Son for the poems included;
Mr. Edward Shanks and Messrs. Macmillan for
"The Swimmers";
Mrs. Freeman and Messrs. Macmillan for "The
Chair" by John Freeman;
Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son
and Messrs. Methuen for Kipling's "Sussex"
from the "Five Nations";
Mrs. Sylvia Lynd for "The Return of the Gold-
finches".
The two poems of John Masefield have been reprinted
from Collected Poems of John Masefield (Heine-
mann Ltd.) by permission of the author.
"There is a Hill Beside the Silver Thames" and
"Elegy on a Dead Child" are from the Shorter Poems
of Robert Bridges, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1931, by
permission of the publishers.
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