Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-05-13
n,n JpAlorsy AND ms,

,rp jealousy AND HIS.
,,m,je did you ever see ghost2'
'ali head is uplifted from my
Is brown eyes gaze into mine,
INV face framed In with a tam
.ss,lden curls, and pair of soft,
srs are pressed coaXingly upon my
TEL mer she pleads, In her
4 persuasive accents.
.re ia amusement.
"A my dear. there are no such
~ as ghosts.
y M Knee and silence falls. She
4, awav into dreamland. while /
"a thlnk. have made a mistake.
ma thing as ghosts? Why. only
m saw one-a pale, shadowy
.fer-,he ghost of a dead love. II
Ne one supreme love Of my life,
shall never know another. Be
NJ the future stretches out in
y, srkness; my feet must tread a
m path, which ends only In the
nhr here beside the window.
I'd llstlessly forth upon the pass
slfeam OF human life. ! go back to
time when We loved each other
nnl Land were supremely happy.
has, It II all past now.
have read my life's love-story back
r and happiness is to me In the
N tense
Iw the words of a sad little poem
h through my brain tonight:
y hear, Is chilled, and my pulse is
. gttsn and often will memory 20.
s blind child lost in II waste Of
snow,
4 10 the days when I loved you so.
The beautiful long ago.
81 here dreaming them through and
4 through,
\ bllssfll moments rye spent with
you.
iwest, sweet days when our love
vas new
true,
Beautiful days-but few!
lesssd or wretched. fettered or free
By should care what your life should
be,
| whether You wander by land or sea?
hy Know you are dead to me
Ever and hopelessly.
iu,asr will vanish, and years will
bring no light to your window
pahe.
dew nor sunshine, nor summer
y bling dead love back to life again.
call up the past in vain,
y heart IS weary. It's ache Is old,
uet proves drOss that | counted
watch no longer your curtains fold,
y WIDOW Is dark, and the night IS
And my story forever told"
Y was proud and high spirited; I
I ana quick tempered, swift to
IrN 70 anger, but Just as swift to
In ne could not understand me;
na1d Tor some natures to be I'M
" segan-I hardly know how-but a
S VI jealousy crept into my heart,
w o. his attentions to pretty
a., remember when charged
MN the oftense, he only looked
apOn me from his superior height
nlmel. II was eNasperatlng to
"Yahded heart-that smile. or
1 -! only added fuel to flame, and
sAh grew iiercer and fiercer, and
I. ~ all bounds: while he only
kns ra u looked at me with that odd
Herer' 1 c,isd ~ s.' Ilps.
n from ma. snsFlly, tearing the
|letd thara ser, Mhlch ne had
Y all betwear" ~, r'n loNlhg WORDS i
Tue ring snii W forever!
ftible hear,h rom my hand to the
Binding. M vi vi beside which he was
n gleamins " ,ba,s golden circlet It
I 4 upon ~ ueiloeratlon, set his boot
Fslehtiv ~ l'ls' crushing 1t into an
lou are Jealous ;, ha oo,ai,. ..,..,
new mi, guixer In his voice which
Van you wonder =. 40.
|.miully: but he t,,r.n e'leu,
4, me alone i'eu coluly anu
men fully roo,t.s 49,
w. In nv n,ad, lzeq Whht mao
'lsFer, and he NJ. l mao LOST nun
n own life Mas nearer 10 me than
|lsht that foiIn n1 .ne anguish Of the
Z crushed III v,iowed; Morning fount
|rel wltb,ss hu penitent, feeling as
|iqnsed hin. Wy heart that had
|sndation sa, mat there was no rea
n strasgoiy, jealousy in his conduct
|''urance "ssg unexpected way my
[qrring pan"s confirmed, for the
Fat Of the oonihlned the announce
another s marriage of his cousin
IySsd 10 ~ nan Fun of remorse--
|isf-l w,oi we dust with sorrow ant
|.fdoh. Tba nm piteous appeal FOL
.Fcgivel r. burden OF my cry wa.
Pr mlsb,o rsivel Come back to me-
stone a. as Wen have pleaded with
'nas Ne would never forgive me