The Tear. Nahum Tate Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ... 1677 pp. 50-51. [15],133p.

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The Tear . I. STay Iulia , let me watch that Tear , Lest the rich drop glide from thine Eye , The Meteor sparkles in its Sphaere , But Fall'n to impure Earth , twill Dye ; Yet where it is it cannot stay , For see the Sun-beams come in swarms to Prey And sip the rich delicious juice Away . II . Into this Viol let it fall — See , Iulia , how it sparkles through ? Well may those Eyes prevail on All , Whose Tears have Killing glances too . If solid as a Gem it were , No Gem cou'd vie with this Transparent Tear ; The Eye that wept it only cou'd compare . III . It shall be so , I will convert This Tear to a Gem , 'tis Feazable ; For laid near Iulia's Frozen Heart , 'Twill to a Diamond congeal . And yet if I consider well , These Tears of Iulia's can fore-bode no Ill , The Frost is Breaking when such Drops Distill .