Nature
The flowers live by the tears that fall
From The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles
Nature
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.
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Sutton, Henry Septimus. “The flowers live by the tears that fall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sutton_hs/1/.
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Sutton, Henry Septimus. “The flowers live by the tears that fall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sutton_hs/1/.
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