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For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!
We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!
Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
A child of those tears.
[Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
A child of those tears.
[Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
Never a tears bedims the eye
That time and patience will not dry.
Never a tears bedims the eye
That time and patience will not dry.
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Words that weep, and tears that speak.
Words that weep, and tears that speak.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.