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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Vale of Tears

By Martial (c. 40–c. 104 A.D.)

ALONE she never weeps her father’s death;

When friends are by, her tears time every breath.

Who weeps for credit, never grief hath known;

He truly weeps alone, who weeps alone!

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