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THE TEAR by THOMAS MOORE

First Line: ON BEDS OF SNOW THE MOON BEAM SLEPT
Last Line: AND HUNG IT ON HER DIADEM!

ON beds of snow the moonbeam slept,
And chilly was the midnight gloom,
When by the damp grave Ellen wept --
Sweet maid! it was her Lindor's tomb!

A warm tear gush'd, the wintry air
Congeal'd it as it flow'd away:
All night it lay an ice-drop there,
At morn it glitter'd in the ray!

An angel, wandering from her sphere,
Who saw this bright, this frozen gem
To dew-eyed Pity brought the tear,
And hung it on her diadem!



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