The Sylvan Cabin - A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sylvan Cabin, by Edward Smyth Jones This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse Author: Edward Smyth Jones Contributor: William Stanley Braithwaite Release Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #26036] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SYLVAN CABIN *** Produced by K Nordquist, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE SYLVAN CABIN EDWARD SMYTH JONES THE SYLVAN CABIN A CENTENARY ODE ON THE BIRTH OF LINCOLN AND OTHER VERSE BY EDWARD SMYTH JONES WITH INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE BOSTON SHERMAN, FRENCH & COMPANY 1911 Copyright, 1911 Sherman, French & Company TO THE HON. ARTHUR P. STONE Justice of the Third District Court Cambridge, Massachusetts Edward Smyth Jones Boston, Mass. INTRODUCTION A poet that comes through a unique experience, as so many poets have, and very recently as the author of this volume has, arrives through his personality rather than his work at a precipitate sort of fame that may serve his talents well or serve them ill.