WEEPING WILLOW. 47 
did David weep in those forty days, all the while 
moaning forth psalms of penitence. The tears 
from his eyes formed two streams, which ran from 
the closet into the ante-room, and thence into the 
garden. Where they sank into the ground, there 
sprang up two trees, the Weeping Willow and the 
Frankincense Tree. The first weeps and mourns ; 
and the second is incessantly shedding big tears, in 
memory of the sincere repentance of David. 
