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Rowe, George Clinton (1853-1903)

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JEALOUSY.

Call it the green-eyed monster?
Name most mild for such an attribute!
The half is not expressed—it is a brute!
Of all things most unreasonable;
Of all things most unseasonable;
Of all things disagreeable!
Meanness in the superlative degree!
The crowning ill of life is—jealousy.