TEARS.
BY CHARLES D. GARDETTE, M.D.
'Tis said, affliction's deepest stingSome token of its pain will bringIn tears of bitter flow;But they who thus judge sorrow's smart,Know not the pang that wrings the heart,With withering tearless woe!The scorching grief that blasts the fount,And dries its tears, ere yet they mount,To soothe the burning eye;That speeds the blood with torrent forceThrough every bursting vein to course,Yet leave each life-track dry!The grief that binds with rankling chainEach feeling of the heart and brain,Save sternness and despair;And crushes with relentless handEach hope religion's trust had planned,Planting rebellion there!Such grief, not one of these have known,Who say that flowing tears aloneProclaim the bosom's throes!Tears are the tokens God designedFor lighter griefs of heart and mind,Such as pure child-life knows;And therefore, hath He so ordainedThat infant-tears be not restrained,But lightly caused to flow,That these, who cannot tell their grief,Shall find in weeping, such reliefAs manhood may not know!
'Tis said, affliction's deepest stingSome token of its pain will bringIn tears of bitter flow;But they who thus judge sorrow's smart,Know not the pang that wrings the heart,With withering tearless woe!The scorching grief that blasts the fount,And dries its tears, ere yet they mount,To soothe the burning eye;That speeds the blood with torrent forceThrough every bursting vein to course,Yet leave each life-track dry!The grief that binds with rankling chainEach feeling of the heart and brain,Save sternness and despair;And crushes with relentless handEach hope religion's trust had planned,Planting rebellion there!Such grief, not one of these have known,Who say that flowing tears aloneProclaim the bosom's throes!Tears are the tokens God designedFor lighter griefs of heart and mind,Such as pure child-life knows;And therefore, hath He so ordainedThat infant-tears be not restrained,But lightly caused to flow,That these, who cannot tell their grief,Shall find in weeping, such reliefAs manhood may not know!
'Tis said, affliction's deepest stingSome token of its pain will bringIn tears of bitter flow;But they who thus judge sorrow's smart,Know not the pang that wrings the heart,With withering tearless woe!
'Tis said, affliction's deepest sting
Some token of its pain will bring
In tears of bitter flow;
But they who thus judge sorrow's smart,
Know not the pang that wrings the heart,
With withering tearless woe!
The scorching grief that blasts the fount,And dries its tears, ere yet they mount,To soothe the burning eye;That speeds the blood with torrent forceThrough every bursting vein to course,Yet leave each life-track dry!
The scorching grief that blasts the fount,
And dries its tears, ere yet they mount,
To soothe the burning eye;
That speeds the blood with torrent force
Through every bursting vein to course,
Yet leave each life-track dry!
The grief that binds with rankling chainEach feeling of the heart and brain,Save sternness and despair;And crushes with relentless handEach hope religion's trust had planned,Planting rebellion there!
The grief that binds with rankling chain
Each feeling of the heart and brain,
Save sternness and despair;
And crushes with relentless hand
Each hope religion's trust had planned,
Planting rebellion there!
Such grief, not one of these have known,Who say that flowing tears aloneProclaim the bosom's throes!Tears are the tokens God designedFor lighter griefs of heart and mind,Such as pure child-life knows;
Such grief, not one of these have known,
Who say that flowing tears alone
Proclaim the bosom's throes!
Tears are the tokens God designed
For lighter griefs of heart and mind,
Such as pure child-life knows;
And therefore, hath He so ordainedThat infant-tears be not restrained,But lightly caused to flow,That these, who cannot tell their grief,Shall find in weeping, such reliefAs manhood may not know!
And therefore, hath He so ordained
That infant-tears be not restrained,
But lightly caused to flow,
That these, who cannot tell their grief,
Shall find in weeping, such relief
As manhood may not know!