PRAISE OF TEARS

translatMd from Metastasio (Danque si sfoga in pianto). In tears the heart oppressed with grief

Gives language to its woes, In tears its fullness finds relief

When rapture's tide o'erflows.

Who then unclouded bliss would seek

On this terrestrial sphere.

When e'en Delight can only speak

Like Sorrow — in a Tear ?