...minutes fledged with music:" and a maid, Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang. " Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. " Fresh as the first beam glittering on a...

...minutes fledged with music :" and a maid, Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang. " Tears, Idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth...the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the hnppy Autnmu-flclds, And thinking of the days that are no more. "Fresh as the first beam glittering...

...dying. ' TEARS, IDLE TEARS, I KNOW NOT WHAT THEY MEAN.' S||EARS, idle tears, I know not what they \n(?t mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,...

...But if we could see and hear, thrs Vision — were it not He? TEARS, IDLE TEARS Tears, idle tears, 1 know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that arc no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail....

...'Tears, Idle Tears'. Its first stanza also describes the eyes of lost innocence: Tears, idle tears, 1 know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. Eyes dimmed with regret and rilled with tears...

...a moment, and Mole knew that he could expect a bit of poetry. And so the Rat recited: "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more." "Hmmm," said the Mole, moved but unsure...

...us to "weep with those who weep" (Rom. 12:15). Tears flow unsummoned, as Tennyson wrote: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess) Jeremiah was agonizing over the nation when he cried: "O that...

...preyed upon his mind more and more. TWENTY-FOUR SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1998 Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. — ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON THE YEARS PASS...

...too. The withheld weeping upon which Albertine disparue ends is reminiscent of Tennyson's Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth...heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. The narrator's tears are a symptom without...

...Tears," suggests that tears are always explainable, and at the same time always ineffable: "Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, /Tears from the...and gather to the eyes, / In looking on the happy autumn-fields, / And thinking of the days that are no more." He can list their causes — divine despair,...