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Sample ## Take a look inside 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. CONTENTS East Wind 2 Names 3 Comforters 6 Pilgrim Mothers 9 Cross-Currents 11 Savages 14 Pirate Treasure 16 The Wall 19 Hampton Town 22 The Old Garden 24 Grandmother’s House 25 Grandmother’s Garden 27 The Frightened Path 28 Devil’s Gold: A Hampton Legend 29 The Haunted House 32 Rose Perennial 34 Scarecrow 37 Inspiration 39 A Wasted Morning 40 Ciphers 42 Pine Music 44 Maids and Mushrooms 45 In the Dark 47 Garden Thoughts 48 The Passer-By 49 Frost 51 Winter Song 53 Tanager 54 Song 56 The Knock 57 An Old-World Convent Garden 59 A September Birthday in Brittany 61 The Blazed Trail 64 But there are Wings 66 Safe? 67 The Up-Hill Street 68 City Smoke 71 Green Crosses 73 The Mystic Circle 76 Song of the Bookworm 80 The Books I Ought to Read 82 John Townsend Trowbridge 83… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fheart-of-new-england) The sample continues in the full work. 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