Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!

We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!

We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
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We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
Hard the eyes no tears.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Tears are words the heart can't express

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in read more

Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.