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Title: The Children's Garland from the Best Poets

Author: Various

Editor: Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Release Date: December 7, 2008 [eBook #27441]

Language: English

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Archaic and variable spelling was preserved as printed.

Missing quotation marks were added to standardize usage.
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Golden Treasury Series

THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND FROM THE BEST POETS

Selected and Arranged by

COVENTRY PATMORE

[Illustration]

London MacMillan and Co. and New York 1895

_First Edition printed 1861 (dated 1862). Reprinted with corrections,
and Index added, +February+ 1862. Reprinted with corrections, 1863.
Reprinted 1866, 1871, 1874, 1877, 1879, +March+ and +August+ 1882, 1884,
1891, 1892, 1895._

PREFACE

This volume will, I hope, be found to contain nearly all the genuine
poetry in our language fitted to please children,--of and from the age
at which they have usua