E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Barbara Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) 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-Jar 11 The Island 12 You and I 13 A Ballade of Old Romance 14