A Mortal’s Sorrow

Life with its sorrows! Life with its tears! Unless my memory fails me, the above two lines are found in a song of the world. I find an answering echo in my own heart when I hear the songsters of the world warbling such melancholy songs. And how they are able to emphasize the sentiment found in the above line. The sound and inflection of their voices, the wailing of the violin, the hush that follows and the hush that precedes -- it all brings home to you the untold suffering, the...