What A Contrast Of Tears!

With an eye as bright
Spills o'er with delight
Child's general, greeting day
Joy-wept, dear, now you.

Up out a heart chilled
Melancholic filled
Years, sleet-like, world, whose lone gaze
Less pleased then dropped through.
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