And found her clasped tight in his arms.
“I came in the room as she kissed him,
He saw me and begged for his life;
I shot at the cur, but I missed him—
He ran and left me with my wife.
“My—wife—God! I’d found her no better
Than women who live on the street,
So diff’rent than when I first met her—
She screamed and fell dead at my feet.
“Then somethin’ inside my brain parted