“Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.”

— John Vance Cheney

The Century Vol. 44, Issue 4 (August 1892)
Tears (1892)

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“Not in the time of pleasure
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But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe.”

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Context: Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
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