T Acknowledgment HE compiler and his publishers are indebted to the following American publish ers for permission to include the poems named below in this volume: To Messrs. John Lane Company for permission to use "The Stoop of Rhenish” and “Song from New Year's Day," by John Davidson; “Old Noah," "Before the Roman Came to Rye," "A Cider Song" and "The Ballade of an Anti-Puritan," by G. K. Chesterton, and the poems "Cider Apples" and "Rum and Milk," by C. W. Dalmon; to The Macmillan Company for permission to use "Captain Stratton's Fancy," by John Masefield; to Messrs. Frederick A. Stokes Company for permission to use "The Mermaid Inn," by Alfred Noyes, and “A Drinking Song,” “Triolet of Deplorable Sentiments" and "Ballade in Praise of Arundel," by Theodore Maynard; to Mr. Lawrence J. Gomme for permission to use Hilaire Belloc's “Drinking Song on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine," and his "West Sussex Drinking Song," and to The Bobbs Merrill Company for permission to use the "Song of the Pelagian Heresy" and "Drinking Song," by Hilaire Belloc. |