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GRIEF-SONG by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: NEW GRIEF, NEW TEARS
Last Line: WHENCE THE RAIN IS FALLING.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
NEW grief, new tears; --
Brief the reign of sorrow;
Clouds that gather with the night
Scatter on the morrow.

Old grief, old tears; --
Come and gone together;
Not a fleck upon the sky
Telling whence or whither.

Old grief, new tears; --
Deep to deep is calling:
Life is but a passing cloud
Whence the rain is falling.



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