Lyrics:
O ye tears! O ye tears! that have long refus'd to flow,
Ye are welcome to my heart, thawing, thawing like the snow;
Theice-bound clod has yielded, and the early snowdrops spring,
And the healing fountains gush, and the wilderness shall sing.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
O ye tears! O ye tears! I am thankful that ye run,
Tho' ye come from cold and dark ye shall glitter in the sun;
The rainbow cheer us if the show'rs refuse to fall,
And the eyes that cannot weep are the saddest eyes of all.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
O ye tears! O ye tears! till I felt ye on my cheek,
I was selfish in my sorrow; I was stubborn, I was weak.
Ye have giv'n me strength to conquer, and I stand erect and free,
And know that I am human, by the light of sympathy.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
O ye tears! O ye tears! ye relieve me of my pain.
Thebarren rock of pride has been stricken once again;
Like the rock that Moses smote amid Horeb's burning sand
It yields the flowing water to make gladness in the land.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
There is light upon my path! there is sunshine in my heart,
And the leaf and fruit of life shall not utterly depart,
Ye restore to me the freshness and the bloom of long ago,
O ye tears! O happy tears! I am thankful that ye flow.
O ye tears! O ye tears!
