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If I Could Only Weep

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If I could only weep,     I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,     To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,          And will not let me sleep.          Down in my heart, down deep     A poisoned arrow burns.    It would fall out     And tears would wash the wound, I have no doubt,          If I could only weep.          Maybe my pulse would leap,     And bring one thrill back, of a vanished day,     Instead of throbbing in this dull, dead way,          If I could only weep.          O silent Fates who steep     Nectar or gall for us through all the years,     Take what thou wilt, but give me back my tears,          And let me weep and weep.

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