"And we are peacemen, also; crying for
Peace, peace at any price--though it be war!
We must live free, at peace, or each man dies
With death-clutch fast for ever on the prize."
--GERALD MASSEY.
The Editor's thanks are due to the Rev. A. Frewen Aylward for the use
of the poem "Adsum," and to Messrs. Harmsworth Bros, for permission
to include Mr. Rudyard Kipling's phenomenal success, "The
Absent-Minded Beggar," in this collection; also to Messrs. Harper and
Brothers, of New York, for special permission to copy from "Harper's
Magazine" the poem "Sheltered," by Sarah Orme Jewett; to Messrs.
Chatto and Windus for permission to use "Mrs. B.'s Alarms," from
"Humorous Stories," by the late James Payn; to Miss Palgrave and to
Messrs. Macmillan and Co., for the use of "England Once More," by the
late F. T. Palgrave; to Mr. Clement Scott for permission to include
"Sound the Assembly" and "The Midnight Charge"; to Mr. F. Harald
Williams and Mr. Gerald Massey for generous and unrestricted use of
their respective war poems, and to numerous other authors and
publishers for the use of copyright pieces.