Show J lust Just U st st. F Folks 0 1 k s By A. A Guest Edgar JEALOUSY With jealousy s suspicion grows rows j Of every move and every word Upon the midnight wall it throws Pictures by which the mind is stirred And vows them true absurd absurd- It fills the lonely hour with dread Changes a smile into a sneer The trifling frilling jest that's lightly said Burns like an acid in the tile ear Til faith is swallowed up by lear fear So strong of jealousy the power That once it lodges in the mind It turns imagination sour Makes eyes to all that's honest blind Paints virtue false and friends unkind There is no sickness quite akin To this wild malady of doubt That locks mad thoughts of evil in inAnd inAnd inAnd And all that's tender and devout joyous and nd beautiful shuts hu put ut |