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    The Rose-Jar
    The Rose-Jar
    The Rose-Jar
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    The Rose-Jar

    By Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Rose-Jar - Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

      The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Rose-Jar, by Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

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      Title: The Rose-Jar

      Author: Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

      Release Date: January 4, 2009 [eBook #27700]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROSE-JAR***

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      The Rose-Jar

      Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

      Author of The Path o’ Dreams, etc.

      Clinton, New York

      GEORGE WILLIAM BROWNING

      Copyrighted 1906 by Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

      The author desires to thank the editors of Appleton’s Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Smart Set, and the other publications in which the verses in this collection originally appeared, for their kind permission to reprint.

      This Edition of The Rose-Jar Printed by George William Browning at Clinton New York during the Summer of 1906 consists of Three Hundred copies on Deckle-Edged Paper, with Twelve additional copies on Imperial Japan Vellum (Insetsu Kioku).

      NUMBER 258

      To the Memory of My Mother

      CONTENTS

      As in a Rose-Jar11

      The Island12

      You and I13

      A Ballade of Old Romance14

      A Voice from the Far Away16

      April17

      A Yesterday18

      Violets19

      A Song of Life20

      As a Still Brook21

      At the Window22

      A Sea Spell23

      The Silent Country24

      The Sport of a God25

      Remembrance26

      In Days of Old27

      We Once Built a House o’ Dreams28

      A Song of the Way29

      In Trinity Church-Yard at Sunset30

      Where Cross-Roads Part31

      Saida32

      In Arcady33

      The Summer Rain34

      Impression35

      Derelicts36

      The End of the Day38

      Tristesse39

      Interlude40

      To You, Dear Heart41

      Twilight42

      The Poet43

      The Hunchback44

      The Little Ghosts45

      I Know a Quiet Vale46

      Song47

      Immutability48

      In the Fall o’ Year49

      Love’s Song50

      The Golden Hour51

      The Dream-Way52

      The Spirit of Autumn53

      On the Long Road54

      A Postlude55

      An Old Song56

      Old Roses57

      The Rose-Jar

      As in a Rose-Jar

      As in a rose-jar filled with petals sweet

      Blown long ago in some old garden place,

      Mayhap, where you and I, a little space,

      Drank deep of love and knew that love was fleet—

      Or leaves once gathered from a lost retreat

      By one who never will again retrace

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