ROSE AND ROOF-TREE:

POEMS



by

GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP




[Illustration: JESSAMINE]




Upon the enchanted ladder of his rhymes,
Round after round and patiently
The poet ever upward climbs.




_DEDICATION_.

_I need give my verse no hint as to whom it sings for. The rose,
knowing her own right, makes servitors of the light-rays to carry her
color. So every line here shall in some sense breathe of thee, and in