TEARS.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 216, 30 August 1878, Page 2

TEARS.

By Johk Taylor Pop.fi, Clinton. Where is tho fount and spaing from whence ye rise 'I .Whence the resistless force that floods the eyes? O Tears ! faat frozen by the carea of earth, The genial thaw of feeling gives thee birth: Welcome, most welcome, to the stricken one When grief has sealed tho eyes and tied the tongue —■ A grief so great that one forgets to grieve, Finds not, nor seeks, the tears that would relieve. E'en though the eye sees not, memory recalls, And half-shed tears will dim .their crystal walls, And. through that happy medium, magnifies The much-loved object that the mind descries. A look, a tonp, an old familiar lay Will bring the dear ones near, though far away ; Some joyous song, some simple glad refrain, .. J And the glad Bcene is acted o'ei^s^iin. No eyes like those that, laughing through their tears A When the glad tidings fall upon their ears A That those much loved the angry words L unsay, A Plead for a kiss to kiss the tears away. y The merry laughter of the giddy one A Is spent and over e'er tho joke is done. . J But happy memories, though they bring y tears, 3 Are happy Btill, through many changing L| years. % But there are bitter tears, wrung out, as || t'were, - . ..' .-. i§. The black heart's blood, that comfort not, g| but sear • m As with hot iron.- Conscience awakes at ill And seeks repentance, though the time ||l has past. ■'-''... . 7ff|