And yet from all those flow'rs I saw,

No honey, but these tears could draw.

So the all-seeing sun each day,

Distils the world with chemic ray;

But finds the essence only showers,

Which straight in pity back he pours.

Yet happy they whom grief doth bless,

That weep the more, and see the less;

And, to preserve their sight more true,

Bathe still their eyes in their own dew.