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Oh! Thou who driest the mourner’s tear, How dark this world would be, If, when deceived, and wounded here, We could not fly to Thee! The friends who in our sunshine live, When winter comes are flown, And he who has but tears to give, May weep those tears alone. But Thou wilt heal the broken heart, Which like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathe sweetness out of woe.
Oh! Thou who driest the mourner’s tear, How dark this world would be, If, when deceived, and wounded here, We could not fly to Thee! The friends who in our sunshine live, When winter comes are flown, And he who has but tears to give, May weep those tears alone. But Thou wilt heal the broken heart, Which like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathe sweetness out of woe.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Moore (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 283 · printed citation: Moore · subject: HEALING
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