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THE POSY RING

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THE POSY RING

A BOOK OF VERSE FOR CHILDREN

CHOSEN AND CLASSIFIED BY

Kate Douglas Wiggin

AND

Nora Archibald Smith

"A box of jewels, shop of rarities,

A ring whose posy was 'My pleasure'"

George Herbert

MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
NEW YORK
MCMVI

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A NOTE

Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use thefollowing poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: "WindyNights," "Where Go the Boats?" "The Little Land,""The Land of Story Books" and "Bed Time"; forthe following poems by Mary Mapes Dodge: "NearlyReady," "Now the Noisy Winds are Still," "Snowflakes,""Birdies with Broken Wings," and "Nightand Day"; for the following poems by Eugene Field:"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," and "Nightfall in Dordrecht";for "Rockaby, Lullaby," by J. G. Holland;and for "One, Two, Three," by H. C. Bunner. G. P.Putnam's Sons, for permission to use "High and Low,"by Dora Goodale. D. Appleton & Son, publishers ofBryant's Complete Poetical Works, for permission toreprint "Robert of Lincoln," by W. C. Bryant. E. P.Dutton & Co., for permission to reprint "The Birds inSpring," by Thomas Nashe. A. C. McClurg & Co., forpermission to reprint "Baby Seed Song" and "Bird'sSong in Spring," by E. Nesbit. The Century Company,for permission to reprint the "Seal Lullaby,"[vi]by Rudyard Kipling. The "Independent," for permissionto reprint "Baby Corn," Anon. Dana, Estes &Co., for permission to reprint "The Blue Jay," bySusan Hartley Swett. Small, Maynard & Co., for perm