Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

HEART OF NEW ENGLAND

Heart of New England

By

Abbie Farwell Brown

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

To

The Memory of my Ancestor

Mary Allerton Cushman

Last of the Mayflower Pilgrims

Thanks are due the publishers of various magazines for courteous permission to reprint poems that first appeared in their pages, as follows: The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Bookman, The Bellman, Contemporary Verse, The Delineator, The Designer, The Ladies’ Home Journal, The Woman’s Home Companion, The Smart Set, The Youth’s Companion, The Living Church, The Christian Endeavor World, The Congregationalist, The New England Magazine, Life, Saint Nicholas, Radcliffe Quarterly, Boston Transcript, Boston Herald, New York Tribune, New York Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanack.

“The Rock of Liberty; A Pilgrim Ode,” with music for Chorus by Rosseter Cole, is copyrighted and published in 1920 by the Arthur P. Schmidt Company, of Boston.

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