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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

The death in Paris of Jane Sophia, Countess de Molandè

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

TEARS! are they tears indeed?

And can the dead heart bleed?

Suffering so long, so much,

O heart! I thought no touch

Of pain could reach thee more!

Alas! the thought is o’er.

I will wipe off the tear

That falls not on her bier

Who would have wept o’er mine.

Ah me! that form divine

Above my reach must rest

And make the blest more blest.