Ice Tears



Her welked face with woeful tears besprent,
Her colour pale, and, as it seem'd her best,
In woe and plaint reposed was her rest;
    And as the stone that drops of water wears,
    So dented were her cheeks with fall of tears.

-Baldwin,The Mirror for Magistrates:
The Induction
,1563







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