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328 Tears! glistening tears! like dewdrops on the flowers, Mute sorrow's and affection's transient showers! Tears! silent tokens of both joy and grief, Soft as the showers of Spring-time and as brief! Tears! that unbidden from the eyelids gush. While from the beating heart emotions rush; Some shed in gloom, and some in lifers sunshine; Some with the memories of 'Auld Lang Syne': Some that have glistened in Arcadian bowers; Wept over blighted hopes in lonely hours: Tears I while we ponder'd o'er the pleasing past; Ah! o'er departed days too bright to last; O'er objects that in youth we fondly cherished; That blossom'd into beauty and then perished.

Tears! that to recollections yield relief, The sad, sweet luxuries of silent grief! With sighing memories that will not let Bereaved affection bygone hours forget;