Show regarding gems by walt mason I 1 decked with gems my person fat they glittered with exceeding asplen dor I 1 had some rubies on my hat an emerald on each suspender oh men could see me from afar and straightway they grew jealous I 1 twinkled like the little star of which the ancient hymnbooks tell us 1 I wore a sapphire on my shirt my cummerbund was diamond fretted the weight of all my jewels hurt and long beneath the load I 1 sweated and ever as I 1 tolled toiled along for din ing halls or ball rooms heading I 1 saw the tired and sad faced throng that finds this life such dreary sled ding I 1 saw men push their jaded feet in search of work that always dodged them and women turned into the street from squalid rooms that lately lodged them I 1 saw them by the so ranked poor ho hopeless skates all trodden under and as 1 I looked my diamonds clanked and made a noise like distant thunder I 1 saw a stiff fished from a brook some worn out wife or wayward sis ter and as I 1 took a startled look my diamonds seemed to scorch and blister I 1 lie ie cut out all the precious stones one can t enjoy that form of granite while hearing all the walls and groans that rise from this old hard luck planet |