THE SINGING LEAVES A BOOK OF SONGS AND SPELLS BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

‘Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.’

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published November, 1903

TENTH IMPRESSION

Thanks are due to the editors of Harper’s Monthly, Scribner’s Magazine, and other periodicals, for their courteous permission to reprint many of the following poems.

THE SINGING LEAVES