Quote#Sadness
Drop, drop, slow tears
Quote byPhineas Fletcher · 1582–1650
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn".
English (original)
Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet, Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of Peace.
— Phineas Fletcher
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