It is a lofty form of religion, just as the patriotism which breaks forth in tears and cheers as troops go out to war is a finer type than the mere excitement and fervor of one patriotic man.

Ah, now my eyes are veiled in tears, Sure witness of my jealous flame.

When Hector's lovely widow shines in tears, Or Rowe's gay rake dependent virtue jeers, With the same cast of features he is seen To chide the libertine and court the queen.

"Never more!" cried Mathieu in tears.

The Jacobin towerTheatreGrand Etablissement des Thermes Hospice CivilEglise des CarmesMount OlivetMadame Cheval, her cakes and teaBigorre in tears CHAPTER III. LOURDES.

It's Miss Maud I wants, and Miss Maud I'll find, or Lord bless her swate face and morals, and her charackter, and all belonging to her! isn't that, now, a prathy composure for the likes of her, and the savages at the mill, and the Missus in tears, and the masther mighty un'asy, and all of us bothered!

He wasted no time in tears, nor suffered himself to be fearful.

I am on her side all the time when she is giving me light comedy, but when she leaves that vein and bathes her heroine in tears I cannot conjure up any real sympathy.

It must have been about this time that, waking up from an uncomfortable doze one night, I found Peggotty and my mother both in tears, and both talking.

Say, how thou call'dst in tears upon Demetrius! ASPASIA.

In the first carriage was the bride, young and pretty, in tears; in the second, the bridegroom, looking anything but pleased.

Some lovely were, in tears besought and cried, And many would a blooming bride provide; While others were deformed and homely, old, As spinsters still remained, till now grown bold, They raised their bony arms aloft and bawled.

O rocks and hills in tears, oh, move!

" Suddenly all the bright softness of Bobbie's large eyes dissolved in tears.

When next she had speech with Equitan, in place of the kiss and sweetness of her customary greeting, she came before him making great sorrow and in tears.

His presence dash'd all the beholders' mirth, And he went away in tears.

" Adelaide, almost in tears over her brother's catastrophe, was thrilled with admiration of his silent, courageous bearing.

"The dandy of sixty, who bows with a grace, And has taste in wigs, collars, cuirasses, and lace; Who to tricksters and fools leaves the State and its treasure, And, while Britain's in tears, sails about at his pleasure," was styled, as we all know, "the First Gentleman in Europe."

Even girls ran away from home and parents sometimes, in the grip of a powerful love; and he, a man, a man "in the public eye" alsowas he to let a beautiful girl like Leonora go away sorrowful and in tears, so that he could keep the respect of a city that bored him and the affection of a mother who had never really loved him?

At the cries raised by the child, his brother casteth himself at the feet of Childebert, and clinging to his knees, saith amidst his sobs, 'Aid me, good father, that I die not like my brother.' Childebert, his visage bathed in tears, saith to Clotaire, 'Dear brother, I crave thy mercy for his life; I will give thee whatsoever thou wilt as the price of his soul; I pray thee, slay him not.'

The dirge of death the night-blasts sung; The morn, in tears, beheld them dead.

[Footnote 25: A contemporary of the poet, the author of the already-noticed poem, (subscribed I.M.S.), tenderly felt this when he said: Yet so to temper passion that our ears Take pleasure in their pain, and eyes in tears Both smile and weep.]

We mourn but not in hopeless grief, In tears we kiss the chast'ning rod, This sweet reflection brings relief, That all is good that comes from God.

When her husband returned home one evening he found her dissolved in tears, and careful questioning elicited the reason for her grief.

While Lohengrin was swiftly wafted over the waters, Else, Duchess of Brabant, spent her days in tears.