. A selection of posthumous poems. ^. THE TEAR. hat is it gives such kind relief,From all the throbbing pains of grief?And what the broken heart can cheer,Like the soft, silent falling tear ? §rv When far from friendships and from distant lands we pensive roam, And sigh for those we love most dear— How precious is the falling tear ! Ah ! who can see sweet beauty die,Without affections struggling sigh—Or friends stretched on the mournful bier,—Without the softly silent tear ? 41 4- rf r r f •* cMts^rvatev^^^ \fjcAcxskc+i&£*jikr sJ^cj^^J^dk^tJ^jcy^ HE TEAR. The tear is Natures sweet reli

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. A selection of posthumous poems. ^. THE TEAR. hat is it gives such kind relief,From all the throbbing pains of grief?And what the broken heart can cheer,Like the soft, silent falling tear ? §rv When far from friendships and from distant lands we pensive roam, And sigh for those we love most dear— How precious is the falling tear ! Ah ! who can see sweet beauty die,Without affections struggling sigh—Or friends stretched on the mournful bier,—Without the softly silent tear ? 41 4- rf r r f •* cMts^rvatev^^^ \fjcAcxskc+i&£*jikr sJ^cj^^J^dk^tJ^jcy^ HE TEAR. The tear is Natures sweet relief,In evry joy, in evry tear succeeds the heaving sigh,Streaming blest comfort from the eye. Amid our many ills below,Pity accompanies each blow:Twas Heaven that in its mercy, here,Gave comfort in the falling tear. Though evry source of joy be fled,And all the friends we loved are dead,-Yet a relief is ever near,When gushes forth the falling tear. Has disappointments deadly dartWounded the lovers bleeding hear

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