Tears Poem
………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
More grief than ye can weep for.
That is well–
That is light grieving ! lighter, none befell
Since Adam forfeited the primal lot.
Tears ! what are tears ? The babe weeps in its cot,
The mother singing, at her marriage-bell
The bride weeps, and before the oracle
Of high-faned hills the poet has forgot
Such moisture on his cheeks.
Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only ! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,–look up I those tears will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun
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