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Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
 To Sorrow
 I bade good-morrow,
  And though to leave her far away behind;
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 To Sorrow
 I bade good-morrow,
  And though to leave her far away behind;
   But cheerly, cheerly,
    She loves me dearly:
     She is so constant to me, and so kind. 
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I read more 
 A happier lot were mine,
 If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
  For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,--
   Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,
    And no dear mother. 
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]  
 Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
 [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] 
 Men die, but sorrow never dies;
 The crowding years divide in vain,
  And the wide world is read more 
 Men die, but sorrow never dies;
 The crowding years divide in vain,
  And the wide world is knit with ties
   Of common brotherhood in pain. 
 Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
 [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]
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 Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
 [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]
   - credited to Sophie Arnould, 
 Sorrow preys upon
 Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
  From its sad visions of the other read more 
 Sorrow preys upon
 Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
  From its sad visions of the other world
   Than calling it at moments back to this.
    The busy have no time for tears. 
Tears are words the heart can't express
Tears are words the heart can't express