FLOWER AND THORN

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

MARJORIE DAW AND OTHER PEOPLE.

PRUDENCE PALFREY.

CLOTH OF GOLD AND OTHER POEMS.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER,

MILFORD LANE, STRAND, W.C.

AT Shiraz, in a sultan's garden, stood
A tree whereon a curious apple grew,
One side like honey, and one side like rue.

Thus sweet and bitter is the life of man,
The sultan said, for thus together grow
Bitter and sweet, but wherefore none may know.

Herewith together you have Flower and Thorn, Both rose and brier, for thus together grow Bitter and sweet, but wherefore none may know.