Grief-Song
by John Banister Tabb
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.
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1894
John Lane, LondonCopeland and Day, Boston