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Into the Twilight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
123 The Folly of being Comforted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Lake Isle
of Inisfree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 When you are
Old . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
For permission to use copyright poems the English Association is
greatly indebted to the authors; to the literary executors of Mary

Coleridge (Sir Henry Newbolt), J. E. Flecker (Mrs. Flecker), Lionel
Johnson (Mr. Elkin Mathews), George Meredith (Trustees, through Mr.
W. M. Meredith), R. L. Stevenson (Mr. Lloyd Osbourne), Arthur
Symons (through Mr. Edmund Gosse), and Francis Thompson (Mr.
Wilfrid Meynell); and to the following publishers in respect of the
poems enumerated:
_Mr. B. H. Blackwell_:
0. S. Cripps, _Lyra Evangelistica_ (Nos. 25, 26, 39).
_Messrs. W. Blackwood & Sons_:
Alfred Noyes, _Drake_ (No. 12).
_Mr. A. H. Bullen_:
W. B. Yeats, _Poems_ (Nos. 101, 133, 146).
_Messrs. Burns & Oates_:
Francis Thompson, _Works_ (Nos. 105,
106, 110, 123, 127, 145). Alice Meynell, _Collected Poems_ (Nos. 62,
74, 81, 107, 111, 115,
137, 140, 147).
Shane Leslie, _Eyes of Youth_ (No. 84).
_Messrs. Chatto & Windus_:
R. L. Stevenson, _Underwoods_ (Nos.
51, 73, 90, 109), and
_Songs of Travel_ (Nos. 29, 32, 68,
71, 94,
96, 135).
_Messrs. Constable & Co._:
Walter de la Mare, _The Listeners_ (Nos.
1, 61, 67, 117, 142).
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_Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd._:
W. Canton, _The Comrades_ (No.
28).
G. K. Chesterton, _The Wild Knight_ (No. 131).
_Messrs. Duckworth & Co._:
Hilaire Belloc, _Verses_ (Nos. 35, 45,
112).
T. Sturge Moore, _The Gazelles_ (Nos. 89, 93).

_Mr. A. O. Fifield_:
W. H. Davies, _Songs of Joy_ (Nos. 48, 86), and
_Nature Poems_ (No. 53).
_Messrs. Max Goschen, Ltd._:
J. E. Flecker, _The Golden Journey to
Samarcand_* (Nos. 24, 60).
_Mr. William Heinemann_:
W. S. Blunt, _Poetry of_ (Nos. 36, 64,
65).
Edmund Gosse, _Collected Poems_ (Nos. 82, 87).
Arthur
Symons, _Poems_ (Nos. 85, 113, 130).
_Mr. John Lane_:
L. Abercrombie, _Interludes and Poems_ (No. 31).

John Davidson, _Ballads and Songs_ (Nos. 37, 38, 80).
William
Watson, _The Hope of the World_ (Nos. 66, 121).
Margaret L.
Woods, _Lyrics and Ballads_ (Nos. 10, 91).
_Mr. Elkin Mathews_:
Laurence Binyon, _Poems_ (1894), (No. 79),
_London Visions_ (Nos. 75, 77), and
_England_ (Nos. 16, 57, 129).
Lionel Johnson, _Poems_ (Nos. 9, 95, 118).
_Messrs. Maunsel & Co._:
P. R. Chalmers, _Green Days and Blue
Days_ (No. 99).
Padraic Colum, _Wild Earth_ (No. 124).
_Messrs. Methuen & Co._:
Rudyard Kipling, _The Seven Seas_ (No.
50), and
_The Five Nations_ (No. 34).
Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, _Poems and
Ballads_ (No. 8), and
_The Vigil of Venus_ (No. 44).
Herbert Trench, _New Poems_ (Nos.
14, 92).
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_Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd._:
Rupert Brooke, _1914 and

Other Poems_ (Nos. 20, 21, 47).
John Drinkwater, _Swords and
Ploughshares_ (Nos. 19, 40, 41). Laurence Housman, _Selected
Poems_ (No. 83).
Rose Macaulay, _The Two Blind Countries_ (No.
46).
_Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co._:
Robert Bridges, _Poetical Works_
(Nos. 54, 56, 63, 76, 104, 125, 126, 128, 132, 139, 141).
_Messrs. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd._:
Ernest Radford, _Poems_ (No. 42).

W. B. Yeats, _Poems_ (Nos. 49, 88, 138, 143, 144).
_The Poetry Book Shop_ (through Mr. Harold Monro).
Ralph
Hodgson, _Eve_ (No. 5).
0. Now transferred to Mr. Martin Seeker.
The Editor of _The Times_ courteously confirmed the permissions
given by Mr. George Russell ("A. E.") in respect of No. 23, and by Mr.
Laurence Binyon in respect of No. 22--the latter being reprinted in
_The Winnowing Fan_ (Elkin Mathews).
The Association desires also to acknowledge the generosity with which
authors and publishers have waived or reduced customary copyright
fees, in view of the special objects of their organisation. They regret
that considerations of copyright have rendered it impossible to include
poems by T. E. Brown, Thomas Hardy, W. E. Henley, and A. E.
Housman.
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POEMS OF TO-DAY
. ALL THAT'S PAST
Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the briar's
boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are--

Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the
rose.

Very old are the brooks;
And the rills that rise
Where snow sleeps
cold beneath
The azure skies
Sing such a history
Of come and
gone,
Their