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Title: The Rose-Jar

Author: Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

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Language: English

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THE ROSE-JAR

by

THOMAS S. JONES, JR.

Author of _The Path o' Dreams_, etc.

[Illustration]

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_

[Illustration: Author's signature]

To the Memory of My Mother

CONTENTS

As in a Rose-Jar
The Island
You and I
A Ballade of Old Romance
A Voice from the Far Away
April
A Yesterday
Violets
A Song of Life
As a Still Brook
At the Window
A Sea Spell
The Silent Country
The Sport of a God
Remembrance
In Days of Old
We Once Built a House o' Dreams
A Song of the Way
In Trinity Church-Yard at Sunset
Where Cross-Roads Part
Saida
In Arcady
The Summer Rain
Impression
Derelicts
The End of the Day
Tristesse
Interlude
To You, Dear Heart
Twilight
The Poet
The Hunchback
The Little Ghosts
I Know a Quiet Vale
Song
Immutability
In the Fall o' Year
Love's Song
The Golden Hour
The Dream-Way
The Spirit of Autumn
On the Long Road
A Postlude
An Old Song
Old Roses

_The Rose-Jar_