Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He published both prose and poetry, including Poems of Four Seas (1921) and By Sanction of Law (1924). Jones died on December 14, 1955, in Boston.
Ghastly, ghoulish, grinning skull,Toothless, eyeless, hollow, dull,Why your smirk and empty smileAs the hours away you wile?Has the earth become such boreThat it pleases nevermore?Whence your joy
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Count o'er the million leagues from here to yonder star.On then. On to the next count of a million more.Sum up the myriad gleams that light the night;Add too, the orbit where the cold bright moon doth
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