COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND PUBLISHERS'

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ALL rights on poems in this work are reserved by
the holders of copyright.

The publishers named in the subjoined list are the
proprietors in their own right or as agents for the
authors of the books and poems of which the author-
ship and titles are given respectively, and of which
the ownership is thus specifically noted and is hereby
acknowledged.

THE PUBLISHERS OF

"POETICAL FAVORITES, YOURS AND MINE."

By special permission of The Grafton Press "The
Eyes of the Christ," from The Dream Child and other
Verses, by N. B. Carson, copyright 1905.

By special permission of Houghton, Mifflin Com-
pany, as authorized publishers of "The Angels of
Buena Vista," "The Barefoot Boy," "Maud Muller,"
"In School-Days," by Whittier; "A Psalm of Life,"
"Suspiria," "Resignation," "The Village Blacksmith,"
"There is no Death," "The Arrow and the Song,"
"The Children's Hour," "God's Acre," by H. W. Long-
fellow; "Freedom," "The Heritage," "A Prayer,” “A
Requiem," "The Present Crisis," by J. R. Lowell;
"The Kings," by L. I. Guiney; "Plain Language from
Truthful James," "Miss Edith Helps Things Along
with her Elder Sister's Beau," by Francis Bret Harte;
"The Boys," "Old Ironsides," "The Height of the
Ridiculous," "The Last Leaf," "The Voiceless," by
O. W. Holmes; "Are the Children at Home," "Our
Own," by M. E. Sangster.

By special permission of John Lane Company,
"Leetla Joe," from Carmina, by T. A. Daly.

By special permission of Catholic Standard and Times Publishing Company, "The Song of the Thrush," from Canzoni, by T. A. Daly.

By special permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, "Christmas at Sea," "The Departed Friend," from Poems, by R. L. Stevenson; "The Questioner," by Carl Werner, from Scribner's Magazine, copyright 1910; "Fiddle-Dee-Dee," "Jes' fore Christmas," from Love Songs of Childhood, copyright 1894, by Eugene Field; "Little Boy Blue," "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," from With Trumpet and Drum, copyright 1892, by Mary French Field.

By special permission of Little, Brown & Company, "Lines on the Death of his Son Charles," by Daniel Webster, from Daniel Webster's Complete Works.

By special permission of Longmans, Green & Company, "Outward," from Poems, by W. J. Cameron. By special permission of Edwin Markham, “Lincoln, the Man of the People."

"The Old Swimmin'-Hole" is from Neghborly Poems, by J. W. Riley, copyright 1891; "Little Orphant Annie," from Child Rhymes, by J. W. Riley, copyright 1898; "An Old Sweetheart of Mine," from "Love Lyrics, by J. W. Riley, copyright 1898; "Old Fashioned Roses," from Farm Rhymes, by J. W. Riley, copyright 1901.

POETICAL

FAVORITES

RECOMPENSE

BY EDWIN M. ABBOTT

What is the price of manhood?
What sale does honor bring?
Does pure, untarnished character
Count nought in lifetime's ring?
Do bauble scions rule us?

Does riot, ruin reign

The purest soul to trample down
To crush, destroy, rend twain?
Is there no truth or honor

To cause mankind to stay
The all-consuming thirst for lust
That lures them far away?
Does honest labor cheapen

The mold wherein we're cast;

Is black, corrupt impurity

The flag flung from life's mast?
Forget not. One is watching,

Our actions, day by day,

And riches gained at such a cost
He surely will repay.

For though mankind is judging

Appearances, poor art,

The God, the just the righteous Judge.
Inspects our inmost heart.
Condemn not, then, I pray thee,
For thou, thyself, some day
May seek for mercy from thy Judge,
Whose verdict none can sway.
And temper all thy judgments
With love and common sense.
The end well merits all 'twill bring;
It serves full recompense.

LEEDLE YAWCOB STRAUSS

BY CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS

I haf got a leedle boy

Vot gomes schust to my knee;

Der queerest schap, der greatest rogue As efer you dit see;

He runs and jumps, and smashes dings
In all barts of der house

But vot of dot? he vas mine son,
Mine leedle Yawcob Strauss.

He get der measles und der mumbs,
Unt eferyding dot's oud;

He sbills mine glass of lager beer,

Poots schnuff indo mine kraut;

He fills my pipe mit Limburg cheese,-
Dot vas der roughest chouse;
I'd dake dot vrom no oder boy
But leedle Yawcob Strauss.

He dakes der milk ban for a dhrum,
Und cuts mine cane in dwo

To make der schticks to beat it mit
Mine cracious, dot vas drue!

I dinks mine head vas schplit abart,
He kicks oup sooch a touse
But nefer mind, der poys vas few
Like dot young Yawcob Strauss.

He asks me questions sooch as dese:
Who baints mine nose so red?
Who vas it cut dot schmoot blace out
Vrom der hair ubon mine head?
Und vhere der plaze goes vrom der lamp
Vene'er der glim I douse

How gan I all dose dings eggsblain
To dot shmall Yawcob Strauss?

I somedimes dink I schall go vild
Mit sooch a grazy poy,

Und vish vonce more I gould haf rest
Und beaceful dimes enshoy;

But ven he was ashleep in ped

So guiet as a mouse,

I brays der Lord, "Dake anydings,

But leaf dot Yawcob Strauss."