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Go, let me weep! there’s bliss in tears, When he who sheds them inly feels Some lingering strain of early years Effaced by every drop that steals. The fruitless showers of worldly woe Fall dark to earth and never rise; While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. Leave me to sigh o’er hours that flew More idly then the summer’s wind; And while they pass’d a fragrance threw, But left no trace of sweets behind. The warmest sigh that pleasure heaves Is faint, is cold to those that swell The heart, where pure repentance grieves O’er hours of pleasure loved too well.
Go, let me weep! there’s bliss in tears, When he who sheds them inly feels Some lingering strain of early years Effaced by every drop that steals. The fruitless showers of worldly woe Fall dark to earth and never rise; While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. Leave me to sigh o’er hours that flew More idly then the summer’s wind; And while they pass’d a fragrance threw, But left no trace of sweets behind. The warmest sigh that pleasure heaves Is faint, is cold to those that swell The heart, where pure repentance grieves O’er hours of pleasure loved too well.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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Page 491 · printed citation: Moore · subject: REPENTANCE
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