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Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. V. Sorrow

Henry Septimus Sutton (1825–1901)

THE FLOWERS live by the tears that fall

From the sad face of the skies,

And life would have no joys at all

Were there no watery eyes.

Love thou thy sorrow: grief shall bring

Its own excuse in after years:—

The rainbow!—see how fair a thing

God hath built up from tears.