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every financial, moral and spiritual means that justice would be
served by naming them my co-authors.
My appreciation and thanks are hereby inadequately expressed
 to Miss Winifred Letts for her prompt and generous response
 in supplying me with information relating to the circumstances
 under which "The Spires of Oxford" was written, for use in
 the introduction of her beautiful poem.
Permission to reprint has been granted by the copyright owners
of poems as follows:
"The Spires of Oxford," from the book The Spires of Oxford
 and Other Poems by Winifred M. Lefts. Copyright 1917 by E. P.
 Dutton & Co., Inc. Renewal, 1945, by Winifred M. Letts. Re-
­printed by permission of the publishers.
        "With Rue My Heart Is Laden," from A Shropshire Lad-Au
­thorized Version-from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman.
 Copyright 1939, 1940, © 1959 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
 Inc. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
"What Lips My Lips Have Kissed," from Collected Poems by
 Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright 1923, 1951 by Edna St. Vin-
­cent Millay and Norman Millay Ellis. Reprinted by permission of
Norma Millay Ellis, Literary Executor of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
   "I Have aRendezvous with Death," from Poems by Alan See-
­ger. Reprinted with the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons.
Copyright 1916 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Renewal copyright
1944 by Elsie Adams Seeger.
      "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. © Punch, London.
Acknowledgment is also gratefully made to Houghton Mifflin
 Co. for "In School-Days" by John Greenleaf Whittier and "The
 Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and to Apple-
­ton-Century for "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant.
                                                     B. D.