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THE GATE OF TEARS by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: FAR UPON THE FARTHER SIDE
Last Line: THROUGH THE GATE OF TEARS.
Subject(s): TEARS;

(TO G. A. S.)

FAR upon the farther side
Of the Gate of Tears
Lies a country clam and wide;
There is peace at eventide
Far upon the farther side
Of the Gate of Tears.

Never gale or tempest blows
Thro's the Gate of Tears;
That autumnal valley knows
Neither nightingale nor rose;
All the hills are crowned with snows
Where the snowdrop peers.

There a broken heart may rest,
Free from hopes or fears,
Undesiring, undistress'd;
While the sunset in the west
Gilds the worst and greys the best,
Through the Gate of Tears.



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