The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics

Volume Two - Complete Text & Lyrics

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254 THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF
And the tears shall flow faster and faster,
Brim over, and baffle resistance,
And roll down bleared roads to each distance Of past desolation and years ;
Till they cover the place of each sorrow,
And leave you no Past and no morrow: For what man is able to master And stem the great Fountain of tears ?
But the flood of the tears meet and gather;
The sound of them all grows like thunder :
—O into what bosom, I wonder, Is poured the whole sorrow of years ?
For Eternity only seems keeping
Account of the great human weeping : May God then, the Maker and Father —
May He find a place for the tears !