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<h2><SPAN name="poem11"></SPAN>ON A TEAR.</h2>
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Oh! that the Chemist’s magic art<br/>
Could crystallize this sacred treasure!<br/>
Long should it glitter near my heart,<br/>
A secret source of pensive pleasure.<br/>
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The little brilliant, ere it fell,<br/>
Its lustre caught from CHLOE’S eye;<br/>
Then, trembling, left its coral cell—<br/>
The spring of Sensibility!<br/>
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Sweet drop of pure and pearly light!<br/>
In thee the rays of Virtue shine;<br/>
More calmly clear, more mildly bright,<br/>
Than any gem that gilds the mine.<br/>
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Benign restorer of the soul!<br/>
Who ever fly’st to bring relief,<br/>
When first we feel the rude controul<br/>
Of Love or Pity, Joy or Grief.<br/>
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The sage’s and the poet’s theme,<br/>
In every clime, in every age;<br/>
Thou charm’st in Fancy’s idle dream,<br/>
In Reason’s philosophic page.<br/>
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That very law which moulds a tear,<br/>
And bids it trickle from its source,<br/>
That law preserves the earth a sphere,<br/>
And guides the planets in their course.</p>
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