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Thomas S Jones Jr

I lived from 1882-1932.

Born at Boonville, NY., Nov. 6, 1882. Graduated at Cornell University in 1904. He was on the dramatic staff of the 'New York Times' from 1904 to 1907, and associate editor of 'The Pathfinder' in 1911. His published volumes are: "Path of Dreams", 1904; "From Quiet Valleys", 1907; "Interludes", 1908; "Ave Atque Vale" (In Memoriam Arthur Upson), 1909; "The Voice in the Silence", with a Foreword by James Lane Allen, 1911; and "The Rose-Jar", originally published in 1906, but taken over in 1915 by Thomas B. Mosher and made the initial volume of "Lyra Americana", his first series of American poetry. Mr. Mosher has also added "The Voice in the Silence" to this series. Mr. Jones was a poet of rare delicacy and fineness whose work has gathered to itself a discriminating group of readers.

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  • The Hills
    Through the twilight faint winds will ever waken
    Ghostly trees adream in the frosty silence,
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  • Sometimes
    Across the fields of yesterday
    He sometimes comes to me,
    8 lines
  • The Last Spring
    The first glad token of the Spring is here
    That bears each time one miracle the more,
    14 lines
  • Dusk at Sea
    To-night eternity alone is near:
    The sea, the sunset, and the darkening blue;
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  • The Path of the Stars
    Down through the spheres that chant the Name of One
    Who is the Law of Beauty and of Light
    14 lines
  • The Garden
    Behind the pinions of the Seraphim,
    Whose wings flame out upon the swinging spheres,
    14 lines
  • A Song in Spring
    O little buds all bourgeoning with Spring, 
    You hold my winter in forgetfulness; 
    10 lines
  • In Excelsis
    Spring!
    And all our valleys turning into green,
    40 lines
  • Joyous-Gard
    Wind-washed and free, full-swept by rain and wave,
    By tang of surf and thunder of the gale,
    14 lines
  • The Pines
    In lofty galleries of greenery
    They rise and meet the azure of the sky,
    9 lines
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