ACKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of the
various parodies for permission to include them in this compilation.
The parodies from “Diversions of the Echo Club,” by Bayard Taylor, and
Mary and Her Lamb, from “New Waggings of Old Tales,” by Frank Dempster
Sherman, are published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Company.
By the courtesy of John Lane are included the parodies of Anthony C.
Deane, from his volume “New Rhymes for Old;” and those of Owen Seaman,
from volumes “In Cap and Bells” and “The Battle of the Bays.”
Bed During Exams is from “Cap and Gown,” published by Messrs. L. C.
Page & Company.
The Golfer’s Rubaiyat, by H. C. Boynton, is from “A Book of American
Humorous Verse,” published by Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Company.
Staccato to O Le Lupe is from “Last Scenes from Vagabondia,” by Bliss
Carman and Richard Hovey, published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Company.
The two poems by Ben King are published by Forbes & Co.
The following are published by Charles Scribner’s Sons: Song, from “The
Book of Joyous Children,” by James Whitcomb Riley; Home Sweet Home,
and Imitation, from “Poems” of H. C. Bunner; and Song of a Heart, and
Godiva, from “Overheard in a Garden,” by Oliver Herford.