HEART OF NEW ENGLAND Heart of New England By Abbie Farwell Brown [Illustration: [Logo]] 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