O Nation, collect your compassion. Weep! For one of your shining lights is entombed in darkness. Weep! O ye officers and soldiers, whom he loved and led to military glory. Weep! O ye farmers and ye Poor, for your improver and benefactor has become a prey to worms. Come water his tomb with your tears.
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Memorial service for George Washington held in South Farms, Connecticut, (1800-02-22). As quoted in Strong, Barbara Nolen (1976). The Morris Academy: Pioneer in Coeducation. Torrington: Morris Bicentennial Committee. pp. 31.James Morris
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.William Blake
I weep for Adonais — he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!Percy Bysshe Shelley
I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I every wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.
Richard Wright
"Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!"
Alexandre Dumas
Weep not that the world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.William Cullen Bryant
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