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Title: Poems Every Child Should Know
The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library

Author: Various

Editor: Mary E. Burt

Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16436]

Language: English

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POEMS

Every Child Should Know

EDITED BY
Mary E. Burt

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THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-
SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY

Published by
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for
THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC.
Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT. 1904, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY,
N.Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS

It sometimes happens that there are people who do not know that authors
are protected by copyright laws. A publisher once cited to me an
instance of a teacher who innocently put forth a little volume of poems
that she loved and admired, without asking permission of any one. Her
annoyance was boundless when she found that she had no right to the
poems.

Special permission has been obtained for each copyrighted poem in this
volume, and the right to publish has been purchased of the author or
publisher, except in those cases where the author or the publisher has,
for reasons of courtesy and friendship, given the permission.

In addition to the business arrangements which have been made, we wish
to extend our thanks and acknowledgments to those firms which have so
kindly allowed us to use their materia