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<hr class="full" /> <div class="c"> <ANTIMG src="images/cover.jpg" height-obs="550" alt="" title="" /></div> RAIN AND ROSES <div class="c"> <ANTIMG src="images/frontis.jpg" height-obs="550" alt="[Portrait of the author not available.]" /></div> <div class="bbox"> <h1>Rain and Roses</h1> By JEANNETTE FRASER HENSHALL To My Daughter Beulah <ANTIMG src="images/colophon.png" width-obs="80" alt="" /> 1923 THE STRATFORD CO., Publishers Boston, Massachusetts </div> Copyright, 1923 The STRATFORD CO., Publishers Boston, Mass. The Alpine Press, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. <h2>Contents</h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> <tr><td> </td><td class="rt">Page</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Inadequate</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">1</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Old Masonry</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">2</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Hymn of Adoration</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">4</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Sweet Distress</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">5</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">The Chastening</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">6</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">The Four Winds of Heaven</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">8</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Friend</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">9</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Humility</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">10</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Shadows</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">11</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Two Roads</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">12</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">The Reason</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">14</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">When June Comes</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">15</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Through Loving Eyes</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">17</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Worship</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">18</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Evermore</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">20</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">A City Guest</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">22</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Reminders</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">24</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Soul</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">25</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Farewell</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">26</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Rainbow Ribbons</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">28</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">My Neighbor’s Roses</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">30</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">The Long Twilight</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">31</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">A Lone Walk</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">33</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">A Death Blow</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">35</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">The Breath of Life</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">36</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">A Day in Spring</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">38</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Autumn</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">39</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Little Girl</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">40</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">My Old House and The Weather</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">42</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Blue Stone River, W. Va.</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">44</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Sea Hunger</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">46</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Tree Sounds</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">47</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">A Wish</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">48</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Middle Creek, W. Va.</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">49</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Endie</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">50</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">In Our Old Street</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">52</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Honey</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">54</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Moon Dazzle</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">55</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">To Friends</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">56</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">To a Meadow Lark</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">57</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Broken Numbers</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">58</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">I’m Going Out</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">60</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Ingleside</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">62</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Friendship</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">63</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">This Year</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">65</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Spring Walkers</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">66</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Winter Woods</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">68</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Brother O’ Mine</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">71</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Dream</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">73</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Shine and Shower</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">75</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Lines to Death</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">76</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">To the New Year</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">78</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Homesickness</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">80</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">To Love</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">81</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Your Friend</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">82</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">Draw Close to the Fire</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">83</td></tr> <tr><td valign="top">What Love Is</td><td class="rt" valign="bottom">84</td></tr> </table> {1} <h2>Inadequate</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> FRIEND of my heart when you’re away I fashion for my tongue, A thousand things to say to you But dear heart when you come, </div> <div class="stanza"> How needless is my well formed phrase, And my care chosen words, Take swift and sudden flight away, Like small wind-riven birds. </div> <div class="stanza"> And with you here, my full glad heart Can only say, you’ve come. For all your touching, pleading ways But serve to make me dumb. {2}</div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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