NO TEARS.

‘No tears to weep!’ And wherefore not?

Say, is thy sorrow such?

And has thy heart no tender spot

That sympathy may touch?

Can no kind word unlock the springs,

And give thy tears their flow?

Are human woes such selfish things,

That none their depths may know?

‘No tears to weep!’ Nay, speak not thus,

For tears can bring relief,

And God has sent them unto us

To wash away our grief.

When earthly sorrow, pain, and care,

Our souls in sadness steep,

We pray to Him who heareth prayer,

To send us tears to weep.

Tis true the world is sometimes dark

With gloomy clouds that rise,

And trembling Hope, with waning spark,

Fades faintly out—and dies!

But when some heavenly vision fair

Steals o’er us in our sleep,

We wake with joy to feel that there—

There are no tears to weep.

Nannie Power O’Donoghue.

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