Produced by Michelle Shephard, Eric Eldred, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. ROSE AND ROOF-TREE: POEMS by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP 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,